Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unhappy with the morbid sort of pride that says, "I am proud to accept poverty for my Lord." As far as it is possible, a minister should receive an adequate salary...
...city of Clifton, N.J., take great pride in one participating group, the Clifton High School Mustang Band, which won first prize in marching competition, second prize in symphonic competition, and missed a clean sweep by only one point...
...Pride of Castro's fleet is the still-commissioned Granma, the 74-ft. yacht from which he launched his revolution in December 1956. But for the rest of the 5,500-man Cuban navy, six Russian destroyers are being acquired to add to a pre-Castro flotilla of a dozen U.S.-built corvettes. From seven to ten 40-knot, missile-armed torpedo boats are known to have already arrived as deck cargo from Russia...
Down with Fraud. Last week, as a federal grand jury convened in Nashville, Publisher Amon Carter Evans could take the special pride of a son who has succeeded in filling his father's shoes. The jurymen will hear testimony on an election fraud-uncovered by the fighting Nashville Tennessean after the Democratic primary last month. In the city's seamy second ward, a political fief controlled by City Councilman Gene ("Little Evil") Jacobs, Tennessean newsmen turned up documented evidence that dozens of the ward's absentee ballots, which decided the outcome, had been turned over...
...virtues. His narrative of the company's action switches focus from soldier to soldier, skillfully managing to re-create a steadily developing, complex assault on a pair of Japanese-held hills. Without seeming to interrupt, it examines each individual's reactions to his own private world of pride and fear. But much of what Jones tells of the men-their need to prove their manhood, the revival meeting frenzy that carries them forward, the nearly insane numbness that battle finally brings them-has been touched on often before...