Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slow-moving life of the English country gentry--as the only world she knew, is utterly genuine, even universal. "Every neighborhood should have a great lady," she writes early on in Sanditon: it is a truth straight out of her experience, as real as the one that begins Pride and Prejudice--"that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife...
...Americans, contemptuously called "camel jockeys," are never given time off for Islamic holidays. Arab Americans are relatively small in number-between 1 million and 1.5 million -and they are dispersed in the nation and split by their disparate national and religious (both Christian and Moslem) origins. But Arab-American pride is asserting itself, especially in Detroit's community (about 80,000 people) and on Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue...
...20th century wore on we became more and more a nation of birthright Americans. The proportion of native-born Americans increased every year. While 85% of the population was native-born in 1890, the number was 93% in 1950. In the familiar illogic of nationalistic pride, birthright Americans-here not by choice but by chance-began to insist that there was some special virtue in their nativity. The American spirit seemed to be changing from The World Turned Upside Down (a song of the Revolutionary period) to God Bless America...
...Viet Nam), surfeited by an American standard of living, many Americans, then, were tempted to become refugees from the American quest. Some felt that the decent, prosperous life the earlier Americans wanted for their grandchildren had not been achieved by them. But belligerent campaigns for ethnic and racial pride fragmented the nation with new chauvinisms. The fertile pleasures of an immigrant nation were displaced by cold-blooded quotas - unashamed power struggles of Americans against themselves. The struggle for minority rights became a demand for minority veto...
...goals could be defined by numbers. Because many of our ills - pollution, inflation and unemployment - had to be described statistically, we were inclined to believe that our goals could be described the same way. We began to be threatened by what the New England Puritans called the sin of pride - belief that all our possibilities had already been revealed...