Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creative Warlord. "The force used was the force that was necessary," insisted Police Superintendent James Conlisk Jr. He could point to the fortunate fact that no one was killed. He also pointed out-almost with pride-that the casualties included 152 cops. Yet the cops' excesses during the Democratic Convention were not basically Conlisk's doing. Chicago is Mayor Richard J. Daley's satrapy...
Americans have really always known this. There are various ways of looking at history: as fate, as chance, as an opponent to be outwitted or a force from which to hide. Americans treat it, at least in part, as a problem to be mastered. Call it pride or pragmatism, on this fundamental belief the U.S. was founded and still stands-that men need not be victims...
...soon as its plans were made public 31 years ago, the $6,750,000 Garden State Arts Center near New Bruns wick became the pride of New Jersey. Focal point of it all was a 5,000-seat outdoor amphitheater designed by Edward Durell .Stone, 66, and to everyone's embarrassment, the very first performance in the craterlike theater was nearly washed out when a spring storm caused a flood backstage. Last week the rains came again during a performance of the Jeffrey Ballet, and once more Stone's crater flooded as the drains apparently failed to handle...
Agnew drops the princess phone and shouts to Judy in the next room, "I'm it!" Whereupon the camera would zoom in on Elinor Isobel Judefind Agnew, 47, plump, brunette wife of the Maryland Governor, as she registers the pride and terror of being transformed from a cheerful home body who "majored in marriage" (as she puts it) into the wife of a vice-presidential candidate...
...only detailed plan offered so far this summer has come from the university's Alumni Federation, which expressed "unreserved pride" in Kirk, called for stern limits on protests and stronger student government. It also proposed the creation of a 15-man board of visitors to check out complaints about the operation of each of the university's 15 schools. The boards would include trustee-appointed alumni, students, administrators and outside specialists. But Kirk is cool even to that modest proposal...