Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hamilton County Fair near Cincinnati. It is a baseball game at the New England Clown Convention in Salem, Mass., where no one knows who won because the bases kept moving and the umpire used a fire extinguisher to settle disputes. It is Cincinnati's Don Cook, who takes pride in being able to grow an instant beard by letting bees swarm to his chin. It is 102 vintage ships (minimum age: 25 years) sailing in the shadow of the Queen Mary during the Long Beach, Calif., Ancient Mariner's Regatta...
...fact, though hardly new, the chirp and bleat of parochial pride is more blatant than ever. The simple reason: these days the old hooray for the home team gets amplified by all the techniques typical of the age of hype. Localities and larger principalities routinely hire professional publicists and jingle writers to puff up the old image and help sell it like so much soda pop. Provincial self-glorification is both nourished and exported in a growing number of slick regional and city magazines. Moreover, metropolises and counties now go to exorbitant lengths to build spectacular sports arenas, convention centers...
...pride, the widow has refused food stamps and welfare. So, when arrested, she was too embarrassed to give her home address. For the first time in her life she spent the night in jail. The next day she was released and the charges were dropped. Said she: "I wish God would close my eyes. I'm so tired of living...
Jesse's message of pride...
...black audiences the stirring mix of pep rally and gospel service that has made his program PUSH-EXCEL such a hit among blacks in the U.S. At two meetings in Soweto, he characteristically led the crowds in singing traditional hymns, as well as chants that stressed black consciousness and pride. He intoned: "I am somebody; I may be poor, but I am black, beautiful and proud." Then he called on his often tearful audiences to take up the chant. Referring to the 1976 racial riots, which were put down with murderous violence by South African police, he declared that "when...