Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Arkansas Democrat James William Fulbright is a professional man of the world. Chairman of the great Senate Foreign Relations Committee, he is widely traveled, points with vast pride to the Oxford degree that he won as a Rhodes scholar, is father of the scholarship plan that bears his name and has enabled 24,000 Americans to widen their horizons in studies abroad...
...make enemies, among them the Ford Motor Co., which broke into its bulging piggy bank last year to develop a racing sports car of its own: the prototype Ford GT, a rakish, rear-engined coupe with 385 honest horses stuffed into a 40-in.-high package. Bursting with pride, Ford shipped its GTs off to Europe to teach old Enzo a lesson. In four races, not a single GT even managed to cross the finish line...
...women are portrayed with equal skill. Lila Kedrova plays the old courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the same pride and dignity she brought to her performance as Electra...
...unmistakable clan which now exists among the custodial officers on several levels, the pride with which they talk about the work in the institutions, and the astounding cooperation between every brand of government and the Department of Correction are all directly attributable to McGrath...
After trampling so crudely over one of the state's most dedicated administrators and one of the only sources of state pride, Volpe bears careful watching indeed. After considerable criticism form the press about the firing of McGrath, Volpe issued a statement on Wednesday by way of excuse. After predictibly denying that there had been a "purge," Volpe justified the action against McGrath and another official thus: "They did not have life tenure...