Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...There's something about Harry that gives everyone in his boats a sense of confidence, a pride that refuses to entertain the idea of anyone else even being close to us," said number-six-man, senior Dick Cashin...
Perhaps it was that same pride which made five varsity members discontent to be simply intercolligiate rowing champions...
...factories for subsistence-level wages seized control of their places of work and planned common ownership. Field laborers in the rural areas forced their way onto large plantations and marked off plots of land they could cultivate themselves. And, in the slums surrounding Santiago, Chileans took a new pride in their past, setting up schools and community centers to make their children aware of their cultural heritage...
Your section on jealousy is a dilly. You know, the part where you say that if you find out somebody's been messing with your mate, you can react with pride at the compliment to your taste and luck instead of carrying on "like a backward five-year-old who sees another child with his tricycle...
...York, Los Angeles, Washington and Chicago have received more than 3,000 calls and letters, and they have been running about 20-to-l against the movie. Upset about the response, some NBC affiliates went out of their way to chide the network. In Nashville, which takes justifiable pride in its sophistication, WSM-TV received 70 calls protesting the rape scene in the first hour after the show; this prompted one station official to tell a local reporter that NBC was solely to blame for the "filthy, disgusting, degrading" show. In fact, final decisions about running network shows always rest...