Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Strait of Hormuz, which Premier Hoveida calls "our jugular vein." Iran worries that dissident forces, like the radical Popular Front for the Liberation of Oman, which is currently fighting Sultan Qabus in Oman, could block the strait by sinking a supertanker. The Shah's response has been a pride of military powers so vast that he not only can neutralize the guerrillas but also dominate the gulf. Says one U.S. diplomat: "The Arabs like to call it the Arabian Gulf. But it really is the Persian Gulf. It's the Shah's lake...
...Home. Compared with Roxbury, Southie has a low crime rate. That is another source of pride-and fear. "If I sent my kids on the bus to Roxbury and anything happened to them, I'd shoot myself. It's that simple," says a father of two. Though Southie spokesmen deny that racism plays any part in their resistance, prejudice is evident in the "Nigger go home" graffiti...
...rule. As one Western ambassador observed: "This was not a nation until he took over, only an amalgam of bickering regions and tribes. Now there is a national identity that never existed before. The masses don't begrudge Mobutu his luxurious lifestyle. In fact, they seem to take pride...
Dartmouth gets three points because the game is played on its home field. Big Green fans are generally maniacs, harboring a beastly pride in their ballplayers. One more point for that...
Kitchen No. 1 is geometric and blindingly yellow, a paean to plastic modernity. It is the pride of a feverish...