Word: prided
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Hall points with great pride to Manter Hall's diagnostic reading program. The school annually administers its own reading test to students, testing a variety of reading skills, "so we can show students where they stand in comparison to other students at the same grade level." He calls the reading test "an important feature of the school" because many students who receive good grades find themselves unable to handle the heavy reading load at the tougher college level. Twenty per cent of the school's students receive special help from two part-time reading teachers...
Another great source of pride for Hall is the crop of ice skaters that Manter Hall has churned out over the years. The school admitted its first girl, Tenly Albright, "around 1950," because she could not find a girls' school which would permit her to shape her studying around her rigorous ice skating schedule. She later became a world figure skating champion, and went on to Radcliffe and Harvard Medical School. Ever since, Manter Hall has produced a steady stream of ice skaters because it allows them scheduling flexibility. Girls now comprise 40 per cent of the student body...
...during two attempts at a honeymoon, and Mo does not ask: "It was just one of the many elements of his work for the President, and neither of us wanted to talk all night about what he had been doing all day." Besides, the role of dutiful wife requires pride in her young take-charger: "I could sense," she burbles, "that John had become much more important to the President and others in the White House...
This, I think, is a lesson Mr. Stulberg has yet to learn. There is a selflessness which must pervade a live performance of this sort: a respect for the composer and a pride among the assembled musicians who are allowed to produce beautiful music under an able conductor's direction. At no time should a concert become merely a vehicle for a conductor to show off his choreographic abilities with a series of bumps and grinds...
Sybaritic Swath. He was going into the Sahara, Hassan explained, "so that my children and grandchildren may take pride in inheriting a real crown and a true scepter." They also stand to inherit Hassan's fortune (estimated at more than $500 million) and his eight palaces, four of them with golf courses designed by Robert Trent Jones. When Hassan dies, he expects to be ensconced in the mausoleum he has had built for himself in Rabat, a $7.5 million structure that looks like a cross between a pagoda and the Taj Mahal. Not bad for a onetime playboy prince...