Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...precise a manner as possible. In a quaint switch on that policy, these days the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. is offering a blend of self-abasement and mystification. Last week, A. & P. introduced the public to two men whose white aprons proclaim them to be Price and Pride. Price-hair parted down the middle, wire-rimmed glasses, collar pin-looks like a study in fiscal conservatism; Pride, bow-tied and portly, looks expansive. In print and on TV they humbly admit that the supermarket chain let them get separated ("Pride was forced to take a back seat...
...conventionally offensive words in Giovanni's new collection of poetry, The Women and the Men. The women she writes about are maternal, stifled, mistreated. And the men--well, she doesn't deal with men as individuals but as qualities. She likes the poetic reverberations of lions, for example: a "pride" of lions; the lion thrown to slaughter in Daniel's den, Daniel representing men; the lion representing an alternate male predicament. Her men throw fleeting shadows over these poems, usually their last lines, which strain for harmony. Her primary subject is Giovanni, fawningly courting invisible men or haunting strong women...
...Saturday night specials, it has managed to squelch any legislation with teeth. When the N.R.A. objected to a recent CBS television documentary on hunting, all except one sponsor-Block Drug Co.-canceled out, and CBS ran a sequel giving the rifleman's point of view. The N.R.A. takes pride in its nationwide programs, which offer instruction in the proper use of firearms and safety in hunting. Nevertheless, the N.R.A. is too soft on gun control for some gun supporters. They have formed the National Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms, which is striving to repeal...
...special command post under a Virginia mountain. Kennedy pondered a short while, then confided to some of his closest aides that if a nuclear attack came, he was not about to leave the White House or his family. He might go up in the fireball, but his pride would be intact; and the nation's survivors would then have inherited Lyndon Johnson or John McCormack, Carl Hayden or Dean Rusk, if any of them had followed orders to go under the mountain...
...Americans, and particularly ethnics, perceived of the United States, or at least wanted to, as a land of boundless opportunity. The human interest stories about DiMaggio and his too numerous to count brothers filled the newspapers, alongside stories about Anschluss and Blitzkrieg, giving Americans a sense of apartness, of pride, and of security. The dream still worked over here, no matter what was happening on "the other side...