Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Originality Counts. Creativity has killed a lot of cats, so be smart--don't fight city hall. Swallow a little pride. Live to fight another day. Discretion is the better part of valor...
...word of this generation is 'informality,'" Mansfield continues. This has attractive qualities to it, among them friendliness and easy-goingness, he says. But one thing "conspicuously absent" is "formality--respect, pride, daring, sacrifice. If a faculty member wants respect for his learning, his years, his position, if he wants conversation to not be laced with vogue words, he must stay in the Faculty Club." However, Mansfield says, he eats in Eliot House at least once a week...
...Clifford, the White House counsel in Truman's time, told a story of how the President dragged General Harry H. Vaughan, the controversial military aide who hated the water and boats, along on a fishing trip. When Truman caught a fish called a Schoolmaster, he showed it with pride to Vaughan. "Look, Harry," said Truman, "I caught a Schoolmaster." Vaughan, slumped miserably on the deck, said, "I don't give a damn if you caught a superintendent of education...
...Picasso. The chairman, Curator William Rubin, picks up the champagne bottle and takes aim. The grizzled chief engineer, Critic Clement Greenberg, puts down the disc grinder with which he had been stripping an American dreadnought, the U.S.S. David Smith; he wipes away one gruff tear of pride on an oily rag, then jerks the levers...
Down she slides: not a Blue Ribander, evidently; smaller than we were led to expect, and lighter; but so buoyant, so fresh and trim in line, that we only realize later and with the mildest disappointment that this Pride of the Clyde is in fact a yacht...