Word: pride
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...position to accept any abuse an upperclassman cares to dish out. Or doing push-ups until she vomits. She will not be submitting to -- or struggling against -- any of the everyday humiliations imposed during the freshman year at the Citadel, the all-male military college that is Charleston's pride, because, as of Friday, a federal appeals court...
...said the teenagers playing ball there "had so much pride in their city...
...going to get himself out of this one?" sort of movie. While the film drags a bit at the end, and many different endings would have left viewers secure and happy walking out, the true purpose of the film is ultimately achieved. We walk away with a little more pride, a little more energy and the satisfaction that the right thing was done...
...invaluable cosmic slide show. The danger of images lies not in the information they carry but rather in our propensity to believe -- once we have seen them -- that we have seen the whole picture. The much heralded visual age is nearly upon us, and we can take justifiable pride in our new abilities to look at each other over long distances and to take close- ups of deep space. We should also remember that images do not come with built-in memories or instructions in how they should be read. If we are to understand them correctly, we must still...
...community that views itself with some pride. Popular books and lectures about ADHD often point out positive aspects of the condition. Adults see themselves as creative; their impulsiveness can be viewed as spontaneity; hyperactivity gives them enormous energy and drive; even their distractibility has the virtue of making them alert to changes in the environment. "Kids with ADHD are wild, funny, effervescent. They have a love of life. The rest of us sometimes envy them," says psychologist Russell Barkley of the University of Massachusetts Medical Center. "ADHD adults," he notes, "can be incredibly successful. Sometimes being impulsive means being decisive...