Word: prided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Harvard freshmen lost 8-1 to a powerful pride of Tiger Cubs, which had beaten the Princeton varsity, also 8-1, the day before. As Harvard coach Jack Barna by left Tigertown, he could only think, "wait till last year...
...least three targets: the "Anglo," for his cavalier indifference to Latin contributions to Southwest history and culture; the Negro, for having won aid and attention by rioting in city slums while the Mexican-American kept his cool in his own ghetto; and his own people, for their self-defeating pride and insistence on remaining aliens in their ancestral homeland. The Mexican-American, after all, is predated in the Southwest by only the buffalo and the Plains Indian; he has never put his psychological signature to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ceded the Southwest to the U.S. after the Mexican...
...decade as president of the University of Alabama, Frank Rose has given his state good reason for pride. He has upgraded the faculty, brought in tens of millions of dollars in research money, sharply expanded the graduate departments-and helped build national-championship football teams to boot. Until recently, he has even managed, with a blend of geniality and tact, to get along with a state legislature normally suspicious of higher education. No longer. Last week he seemed on the verge of resignation after an angry struggle with legislators over the university's right to air unpopular opinions...
...Offended Pride...
...intervened, he explained, out of offended pride, lacking a clear analysis of the situation. He called the series of small decisions which led to U.S. involvement in Vietnam "a long exercise of national inadvertence...