Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...perils that never happened, home to their families and friends and to something rare in the world that sent them. Home to the miracle of men feeling something together, men strangely undivided in a time of fierce dissension, men all over the earth feeling wonder and warmth and pride. And we suddenly wondered if somehow we could capture and preserve what we feel this day. And if we could, is not a better world of men possible...
...this brief time, Borman, Lovell and Anders have given us an absence of negatives, a precious if temporary freedom from fear and confusion so that we felt something so very much better: a cell-deep, bone-felt, soul-binding, heart-stirring pride in being...
...violence and killing; it wanted to cure its violence at home and seemed more and more to regret the violence it inflicted overseas. And even though American violence continued, even though it was in many ways more brutal than the tortures the Pueblo crewmen endured, it lacked the chilling pride of the Korean punishment...
Nice work for a girl who had no formal schooling until age 12. She spent her childhood wandering around the country with a jack-of-all-trades father who "had two points of pride. He never wore a hat, and he never had a job. He was always going to make a movie, or cut a record, or start a new hotel, or come up with a new orange drink." Her parents separated when she was twelve, and four years later Gloria went to live with a sister in Washington. Before that, she says, "I'd never lived...
...fully shared lay-Catholic Francis' own concern for improving educational opportunities for blacks. Francis' declared aim is "to steer students into the mainstream of American life," and he has very little patience for the radical Negroes who would rather go it alone. Students must be taught pride, he admits, but they must also be taught the tools with which to compete. "Math is math," he says. "It's not black math." Fervently preaching involvement with the community, Francis is himself the foremost exemplar sitting on more than half a dozen local committees and com missions. He even...