Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hypocrisy and bigotry. The opportunity is for this generation of black Americans to remake the society. Those who take a lesser view underestimate the significance, or even the dimension, of the change that has taken place. For this generation has discovered itself, and in its newly found, self-gained pride lies the promise of altering the black man's role. You have overcome. Now you must overtake...
...majority of graduates undoubtedly received their degrees with the usual mixture of relief and pride, anticipating graduate work, careers-or the draft. But many of this year's college and university commencements were surrounded by a palpable atmosphere of tension. Conscious of their newfound power, students eyed their speakers with more than the usual contempt for cliché and platitude. Wary orators appeared to treat the graduates of '68 with respect rather than condescension, and pleaded, in effect, that they reason together as adults. What many of them wanted to reason about was the phenomenon of student unrest...
...decline of few other institutions could have wounded Boston's civic pride more. In the 1930s, during Mayor James Curley's heyday, Boston City was considered one of the nation's finest municipal hospitals. Curley kept it well staffed, often with his supporters, and made sure Boston's Irish got medical care "second to none." It still ranks as a first-rate research center, as a result of its affiliations with the Harvard, Tufts and Boston University medical schools, but that hardly helps patients with ordinary ailments...
Stuffed animals, while accounting for no more than half of that figure, remain the firm's obvious pride and joy. At Steiff's toymaking factories each animal is stitched and stuffed with care. Material for coats is selected to simulate real fur. In sewing on eyes and mouths, skilled workers take pains to ensure that each animal wears a distinctive expression. Some animals are equipped with voice boxes that enable lions to roar, bears to growl and donkeys to bray; many have movable heads and limbs. The continuing purpose is to make them lovable as well as lifelike...
...Your cover portrait of De Gaulle is quite brilliant. All the disdain, pride, arrogance, intelligence and worry is perfectly portrayed...