Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Queen Sirikit, which spreads like a green meadow of stability, serenity and strength from Burma down to the Malaysian peninsula-the geopolitical heart of Southeast Asia. Once fabled Siam, rich in rice, elephants, teak and legend, Thailand (literally, Land of the Free) today crackles with a prosperity, a pride of purpose, and a commitment to the fight for freedom that is Peking's despair and Washington's delight. The meadow inevitably has its dark corners, notably the less fecund northeast, where Red insurgency is struggling for a foothold. But the military oligarchy that rules Thailand in the King...
Miller had expected some response to his decision, but not the response he got. The reaction in the Roxbury community, he notes with a look of pride, was "incredible." After only seven months of publication--"what a hullaballoo." The telephone began to ring, letters flooded in and a community "Save the Banner" committee was formed. Miller himself sought, and found, support from Harvard students. Even Boston merchants began to have some second thoughts--enough so that after a four week rest, the Banner was back in print...
...countryside. The fabulous hills and by now mythical Pedernales River were reduced to their actual proportions, to sere ranch land and meandering stream. Next to them, the President suddenly appeared lifesize, and shucking both his White House mantle and "jes' folks" delivery, he reminisced about his beginnings with pride, enthusiasm, wit and spontaneity...
...pages in the literature of childhood. "Even then, when I was only five, I so loved the dawn that I would go alone through the mist in search of strawberries, black currants and hairy gooseberries, my blue eyes deepened by the blurred and dewy greenery all around me, my pride swelling at being awake while all the other children were asleep. At that hour I first became aware of my own self and, in an inexpressible state of grace, felt one with the first bird that stirred and the sun so newly born that it still looked not quite round...
Dazzled, the same writer labelled the Crimson outfield "the dynamite trio." With predictable local pride, he noted that Neville was from Winchester and Hootstein was from Brookline, But when also credited Brookline with producing Dockery, pride became prejudice. The Crimson captain is actually from Brooklyn, a pretty proud place itself...