Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...city is slightly swollen with pride and somewhat torn between shouting to the world that it is not a hick cow town any more and keeping all the hordes east of the Mississippi out of their beautiful country. When asked what they like about their city, most Wichitans cite intangibles such as the sense of community and quality of life. Grover McKee, the budget director who engineered the industrial-development program, came back to Wichita after ten years on Wall Street. "When I was in New York I was spending $200 a month commuting two hours each...
Land-Vest says its tests show that there is no danger of such pollution. They also point with pride to the 50 acres of common land they have set aside, including a cemetery where members of the Putnam family are buried along with some of their pets...
Being of Nigerian origin, I do greatly identify with good efforts initiated by any African head of state to promote national pride, unity and economic growth...
There was also Huxley the pacifist and flirtatious mystic who, in 1937, left England and Europe behind. He moved permanently to Southern California, where he joined another deadly, though higher-paying hustle. Between novels and essays he wrote film scripts (among others for Pride and Prejudice and Jane Eyre). Finally there was Huxley the culture-explosion sage of the '50s and early '60s. Often in mousy tweed and what looked like a snakeskin tie, he toured campuses and symposia, discoursing in silvery tones on coming ecological di sasters, overpopulation, Shakespeare and the way of the Buddha...
...Greece's allies but to keep alive amongst us here the Greek culture and the realities at home. All the stands that we have taken never represented a narrow but often a unanimous majority of our membership which represents a wide band on the political spectrum. We take pride in that the Hellenic Students Association functions in the most democratic fashion and it is painful to read in the Crimson article that the Association is of a "totalitarian radical" nature. The use of the term "totalitarian" seems absurdly unjust when used to characterize a group of people who have risked...