Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...second, even if I did hear that it was more cryptic than usual from friends, my comment violated the sacred "balanced-coverage rule." For the years that I have been here, the band has always been good and entertaining--a veritable source of pride to the university. We've never mentioned its accomplishments on these pages before, so it hardly seems fair that I would so flippantly degrade...
...weakness, and when he spots it, he zooms straight in. Last week the House minority whip pounced on a tattered, Democratic- sponsored lobbying reform bill that was limping toward passage. He came in not for a kill, only to place a wound -- perhaps simply for pride of marksmanship. Straightening his Scotch tartan tie, the Congressman from Georgia upended his schedule, rushed from his second-floor office, stepped onto the House floor and delivered a five-minute, late-afternoon blast. He aimed at one minor and carefully buried clause, which he decried as "designed to kill pressure from back home that...
...those living far from Surat, however, bubonic plague connotes history rather than reality. Most have heard of the Black Death which afflicted Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries. Public health officials thought the final epidemic hit in the late '60s. In fact, a prominent biologist stated with pride in 1975, "During the last 150 years the Western world has virtually eliminated death due to infectious disease...
Perhaps the local youths who destroyed Norway Field had more of a motive than getting a few cheap kicks. Perhaps they destroyed the field out of pride, taking the Norwegian gift as a scrap thrown at them from the hand of a wealthy...
...this is the case, it is a sad day in America. Sad because children in underprivileged neighborhoods have been so thoroughly conditioned to defend their pride with knee-jerk reactions, that they do so even when an act is born not of pity, but of simple kindness. And a world where kindness cannot exist is nowhere to live...