Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...member of the college generation of the '60s, I feel strange talking about something as unfashionable as national pride, but that is what is at stake here. We can't let our biggest, most adventurous, most exciting city go down the drain. Manhattan, is not just an island; it is a part of our heritage. Have we forgotten how to be proud...
...Princeton Tigers, three losses in a row, including two straight in the Ivy League which have effectively eliminated them. Nothing to lose, as the old cliche goes, and an inordinate desire to play the spoiler role. Throw in some Princeton pride and a heritage of playing Harvard tough. Very tough...
...YORKERS are proud of having the biggest and most extreme examples of all facets of urban life, and we are taking the coming bankruptcy with a kind of perverse pride. If you're going to go bust, after all, you might as well do it on a princely scale--and $12 billion worth of debt is something that only one institution in American can afford to sneeze...
...Valley of the Fallen, a monumental Civil War Memorial that was at one time intended to serve as his tomb, Franco rarely emerged from his palace. Even the fishing trips must have become a dispiriting confirmation of the mortality he hated to acknowledge, a further assault on the pride he took in past feats of skill and stamina. In 1957 he had been named national amateur fishing champion for catching a 712-lb. tuna with rod and reel, the largest ever landed by rod in Spanish waters. He also boasted of shooting 8,420 partridges in one year...
...episode illuminates one of the subliminal aspects of the play. It is concerned with Southern European codes of male honor and pride, and the warping indignities suffered by those who try to conform to American codes of success and middle-class etiquette...