Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Then there's the issue of gay pride. We've heard many stories about gay teenagers with low self-esteem who have done terrible things to themselves. Obviously, homosexual students must understand that their orientation doesn't make them any less valuable as people...
...still find the whole focus on "gay pride" a bit silly. Let me tell a fairy tale. A long time ago, society used to make a connection between pride and accomplishment...
...this campaign, he's come out fighting vigorously against his past, advocating an activist council that will restore pride to the student government and school spirit to the College...
Kenzaburo Oe, a novelist who captured the alienation and moral malaise of Japan's "Westernized" postwar generation, became his country's second recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature. (Japan's other winner was Yasunari Kawabata, in 1968.) Today's award triggered an outpouring of national pride -- newscasts led with the story and the Prime Minister issued congrats. The warm fuzzies all around contrast with the 59-year-old Oe's dark vision, steeped in the aftermath of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki...
...could see the expression on my face--it was shielded as to avoid getting thumped by a trombone--but it was full of pride...