Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...important thing is that we're getting to know one another - -personally and in terms of the way we play." Injuries hurt the team but, preaches Bradley, "adversity tends to make a team pull together. Everyone thought we'd be down, crippled. That's where pride comes in. I admit I'm sort of a believer in intangibles...
...life, this sense has made its victims unwilling, if not unable, to participate in a traditional society; they are the sideshow of mass culture, offering freakish realizations of hidden fears and fantasies. In art, absurdity has changed form by radically altering the relationship among man, his pride and his gods. The dramatic structure that created the liberating pity and terror of the Oedipus plays, for example, only makes sense if one truly believes that there are gods who would destroy a man who grows too arrogant. Even the Freudian metaphors that have been used to give modern meaning...
...death surprised the fashionable people who had known him mainly as a strange, seedy aristocrat, a facile versifier, and a nuisance. "We were acquainted with him," one foreign diplomat wonderingly observed to a Russian friend, "but none of you ever told us that he was your na tional pride...
...eager people in the Boylston St. office are glad to tell these stories; when they talk about their paper pride spills all over. "We're untouchable," Lewis says. "We won't give advertisers irrelevant publicity simply because they're our advertisers, so we can't have trouble." Mindich interrupts. " Awareness of BAD has spread on its own--we've done virtually no self-promotion." But the real interest of these people is in their future, the future of Boston After Dark--and what lies beyond...
...beat out Aristotle Onassis and 14 other competitors by proposing a package deal that called for construction of a huge industrial complex, including a steel mill, near Salonika. Pappas knew that almost every developing country yearns for a steel mill, and that the offer of it would titillate Greek pride. The deal produced a unique group of four companies, including the refinery, named Esso Pappas. The only man in the world who has his name right next to Esso's title-on stationery and at gas stations across Greece-is Tom Pappas. Esso Pappas forms the major part...