Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson varsity edged Providence 24-32, but in the freshman meet, Friar yearlings took the first four places ahead of Jim Smith, the pride of Harvard Yard and one of McCurdy's front six this fall...
...descended from the Jewish, Maltese, Genoese and Moroccan immigrants whom the British encouraged to settle there. A tough, cocky breed, the citizens of Britain's only European crown colony speak breakneck English and a kind of cockney Spanish, follow British soccer as avidly as the bullfights, and pride themselves on their stiff upper lips, the view from their 1,400-ft.-high peak (Africa is only 20 miles across the straits), and the fact that the great-great-great-great-grandfather of Britain's Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home was one of the best governors they ever...
...hefty profit in highly taxed Spain. Irked by its loss of revenues as a result of smuggling, the Franco regime calls the British enclave the "shame of Spain" - a name that ordinary Spaniards have mischievously applied to the shoddy, Madrid-made automobiles that are Franco's pride...
...Communist managers. Though they remain loyal Communists, they are better educated and more pragmatic than the baggy-pants apparatchiki (party hacks) who have steered the Eastern economies since World War II. They are acutely aware of the spectacular success of Western Europe's free market system, take professional pride in making farms and factories as efficient as possible. Perhaps most of all, they are openly disgusted at the smothering array of rules, regulations, senseless orders and excessive controls that have put Communist economies in their present mess...
...years she plays his mother as well as his mate. When he quits job after job because, as he grandly announces, "I'm too good for that sort of thing," she knows he secretly believes he isn't good enough, but she protects his pride and does not tell him he is a coward. When he takes passage for Canada because, as he grandly announces, "Ireland is too small for me," she knows he secretly feels he's too small for Ireland, bu she protects his pride and does no tell him he is a fool...