Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Goodies. As for Morse, he says with pride that he has backed the Kennedy Administration 94% of the time, boasts that he is "bringing home to Oregon the highest amount for public works in history, except in 1951." He places the amount at $72 million-but in fact he almost talked his way out of the pork barrel. During the closing days of Congress, Morse objected to appropriating $10 million for a Government aquarium in Washington. As it happened, this was a pet project of Ohio Democrat Mike Kirwan, member of the public works subcommittee of the House Appropriations Committee...
Chauffeur at Groton. Until recently, pace was not the pride of many famed New England boys' boarding schools, which for years had the pretense but not the product of Eton and Harrow. Now they have changed dramatically. By snubbing Social Register dullards and by combing the country for bright recruits of all races, religions and incomes, they are fast becoming more democratic than homogeneous suburban public schools. "The idea that private schools are for snobs is absolute nonsense," says Owen B. Kiernan, Massachusetts' commissioner of education. A few Junes ago, one proper Bostonian summed up: "Today my daughter...
...pets. A "man" stands alone on his marks and muscles. All year the juniors (first-year boys) toil at attaining "silver" standards in physical tests, including a "drownproofing" course (copied by the Peace Corps) with a rugged exam-staying afloat for 35 minutes with hands tied behind back. The pride a boy feels when he succeeds is the fruit of Andover's unofficial motto: "Sink or swim...
Here Robbins' bad taste becomes really impressive; setting a new West Coast record for hutzpa, he supplies an "inside" ending to the murder case quite different from what the court determined in the actual Stompanato affair. But this is merely a matter for quiet pride; what is important is that Robbins climbs out of his garbage heap smelling like money...
This year coach Buff Donelli's pride is seriously depleted. Last season he had a large group of senior Lions that hunted Ivy prey with great skill. Cubs dominate the current pride, and some of them are apparently still teething...