Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...again, they might not. Yale, to everyone's surprise, including the Yalies, did not die a quick death when Dartmouth raided New Haven last week. In fact, the Bulldogs came pretty close to winning. It really makes no difference to the title race who takes this one, but school pride is involved...
Western-style preparatory schools pride themselves on the warm, personal and informal relationship between teacher and student, a relationship less frequently found in the New England schools...
Godfrey Cabot had a daughter and four sons (including U.S. Ambassador to Poland John Moors Cabot), 14 grandchildren and 32 great-grandchildren. His pride of family was such that he could laugh at it. He delighted in the old quatrain...
...Salty Pride. As for the blockade itself, it was precisely directed by Anderson working in his blue-carpeted Pentagon office bedecked with pictures of historic Navy battles. Several times a day he briefed McNamara. red-eyed from lack of sleep, in front of huge wall maps. He signed countless cables-pink paper for secret, green for top secret...
...professional-and articulate-Navyman, Anderson took particular pride in the fact that the confrontation with Russia was taking place on salt water. Said he: "The sea still does provide a measure of space, if two thermonuclear powers would stand off against each other. In general, we're seeing the great importance of sea power." Another way of putting it was that the Navy's show provided a maximum amount of power with a minimum amount of friction. At all times, Anderson delegated heavy responsibility to his subordinates-most of all to an old friend he called Denny. This...