Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dancer's choicest champ is Nevele Pride, a three-year-old trotter* who is hooked on hot dogs, beer and cigarettes (he does not smoke them; he eats them). Despite those hang-ups, Dancer calls him "the best trotter I've ever driven." Last week at Long Island's Roosevelt Raceway, Dancer drove Nevele Pride to his 30th and richest victory in 33 starts in the $166,746 Dexter...
...different. At least different than expected or advertised. There have been war years before, in fact the classes of 1918 and 1943 which share the festivities with us today saw their class day ceremonies filled with uniforms. But then, in those days, there was a certain pride attached to the wearing of a uniform...
...everything in sight. If Mr. Chenery had listened to me, I'd have been naming race horses right and left by now. I've never forgiven Mr. Chenery for this, so I practice on his horses all the time. He has one now called Cicada's Pride. That one is by Sir Gaylord out of Cicada. What's the matter with Noble...
Northern Ireland can and does take considerable pride in its emigrant sons. Davy Crockett's parents came from Ulster. So did the ancestors of Sam Houston, Horace Greeley and ten U.S. Presidents.* Even so, last week was a special occasion. For a sentimental reunion on the ould sod, some 50 members of what is probably America's richest family gathered at the old family homestead -a clay-floored, thatch-roofed cottage near Omagh in County Tyrone...
Militant young Negroes put a more defiant slant on it. Explains Charles Keil, a white ethnomusicologist and the author of Urban Blues: "For a Negro to say 'B. B. King is my main man' is to say 'I take pride in who I am.' With this self-acceptance, a measure of unity is gained, and a demand is made upon white America: 'Accept us on our own terms.' " Yet when soul solidarity is founded on a fellowship of suffering, it may involve not a demand for white acceptance but an outright exclusion of whites, as Godfrey Cambridge makes clear. "Soul...