Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Fairbanks doesn't know how to deal with his players, to treat them like men. He can't begin to appreciate the pride they have in themselves. Fairbanks still operates on some misplaced notion that for Team, God and Country, men want to win. But they win for each other, not for the fans, not for the coach...
Cementing his image as the most chic of Baptist deacons from southern Georgia, Carter--with a certain amount of pride--told a small entourage of newmen following him to the dressing room about his seven-year-old daughter Amy, who attends a school back in Plains where she learns her daily lessons in a classroom with more black than white students from a black teacher. He greeted lead guitarist Betts with an earthy, "Goddam, how are you, man." Then Carter admired the red-and-white-knit-baseball-jersey-type shirt that TV hipster Geraldo Rivera was sporting--it read...
...need us now, but you will later." Mathias was an early critic of the Viet Nam War. With Pennsylvania's Richard Schweiker, he was one of only two Republican Senators on Nixon's celebrated enemies list - a point in which he now takes pride...
...work, students will form a small company, buy a rundown house, spend three hours a week fixing it up, and then try to sell it. The university aims to teach that "there is still worth in the old notions of independence, pride in workmanship and craftsmanship." Perhaps self-reliance is a trait that can not be taught as a sort of fourth R, but a university determined to give students the broadest outlook could hardly try to teach anything more important...
...author might be having a little fun in this story, extolling his own virtues by claiming he has many detractors--like, he implies, many great men. But pride and even whining are easily within the range of emotions Isaac Bashevis Singer explores in Passions, and as he says of Eastern European Jews--both those who were destroyed in the Holocaust and those who survived to come to America--"The longer I live with them and write about them, the more I am baffled by the richness of their individuality and (since I am one of them) by my own whims...