Word: prided
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...hear him say that after all those years of struggling to get the job. Sitting in his brown clapboard home on the icy edge of Minnesota's Lake Waverly, he adds: "I don't hunger for it like I used to. I've got my pride back, and I'm not going to lose it again...
...know, it kind of hurts your pride a little bit because you know it isn't true," he confided. "But I have long felt that if you keep a high degree of composure and don't get rattled, and have total confidence in yourself, things work out pretty well." Ford added philosophically: "You have to have a sense of humor about this. You have to be a little thick-skinned-and I think that comes from some experience...
...planning to acquire more land, and some state legislatures like the one in Iowa, are battling back by setting up corporate-ownership limits to help preserve the family units. It is another drama of change, with potential for pain and fraud, but richer still with portents for renewed American pride...
...pride of many an English country church is its brass-not the personages in the pews but the medieval nobles whose likenesses, engraved on brass plates, are lovingly laid into parish floor and wall. Their lively presences have long been prized by those Americans who, on pilgrimage, spend long hours in drafty naves rubbing the images onto paper.* Now, for would-be brass rubbers, the transatlantic trip is no longer necessary. A unique shop in downtown Boston, the London Brass Rubbing Centre, makes available to plate rubbers meticulous plastic copies of top brasses ranging from a rare depiction...
...Quebec government-run corporation announced plans to transform an area nearly the size of California with a series of dams and reservoirs. The goal was to increase Canada's electrical output by 30% and stimulate the province's economy. There was also a good deal of cultural pride at stake. To the Quebecois, the project was an economic extension of a struggle to strengthen French identity...