Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pride of Aggies
...Pride, the U.S. champion 5.5-meter yacht, skippered by New York's Pete Masterson: the Seawanhaka International Challenge Cup, from the Royal Canadian Yacht Club's challenger Bibis II, in three straight races on Long Island Sound. Obviously the faster boat in heavy seas and high winds, Pride's winning margins were conclusive: 4 min. 14 sec., 5 min., and 1 min. Often called the "Little America's Cup," the Seawanhaka Cup competition is similar to the America's Cup in all but one respect: the U.S. has no monopoly on it. Pride...
...their futures at stake, wanted it to stay open. So did their parents. So did the townsmen of Oxford, dependent on the university for economic survival. So did many Mississippians who have never seen the university's campus but follow the fortunes of its football team with impassioned pride. And as long as the university remained open to other Mississippians, it remained open, by orders of the federal courts, to James Meredith...
...some 15,000 men to work at $1 an hour cleaning up the state's littered roadsides and shabby towns. Three thousand displaced miners and other unemployed workers have been retrained and placed in new jobs. In last week's Wheeling speech, Kennedy could justly point with pride to the fact that West Virginia's unemployment has dropped from 90,000 in 1960 to 61,200-still depressingly high...
...cowed dog tucks his tail between his legs. This flattens the abdomen and reduces the lumbar lordosis [curvature of the lower spine]. In this position the fetus lies more parallel to the maternal spine and the abdominal muscles are less stretched." By contrast, "the married mother carries her pride before her like a banner, and drags behind her a crippling backache which often becomes chronic...