Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Selassie's former aides have left the Emperor friendless as well as powerless. His official function reduced to ritual approval of the military's reforms, Ethiopia's "King of Kings" has little to do but attend daily services of the Coptic Church, visit his aging pride of lions in cages on the palace grounds, and walk his pet Chihuahua...
Even Griffith, who spent many years as a Brooklyn teacher, once placed a sign above his blackboard admonishing: "There's no joy in Jersey." But Griffith takes no pride in having helped put the kibosh on the dialect. "Brooklynese had a bluntness and homeliness," he says. "There is a real joy in variety. Now we're becoming phonetically homogeneous." And that, as they used to say in Brooklyn, is for da boids...
...While your report on the strike of some municipal employees in Baltimore [July 22] accurately presented some of the facts about the walkout, it failed to capture the sense of civic pride that was so strongly demonstrated by citizens and municipal employees during this period of potential crisis. Thousands of Baltimoreans transported their own refuse to the four large landfills that remained open throughout the strike. Also, 38,000 municipal employees continued to work-including a few who remained on duty for up to 50 straight hours to ensure that city services were maintained...
...trauma. "Maybe too much has already been written," said the Washington Post, "about the marvels of the system and how it 'worked.' But it did. And it is important to be precise about how it worked . . . in the end and most importantly, it was the conscience and pride and responsibility of innumerable people and numerous institutions that combined to assert that 1) there was (and is) a norm of official behavior that is recognized and respected by all Americans and 2) the President's departure from this norm was sufficiently gross and calculated to require an extraordinary...
...clear that we have learned much from it; we can almost say that we have profited from it. Right now we look back at it with astonishment: How did we ever allow it to happen? In a few years we will look back on it with a certain pride because we did not in fact succumb to what happened, or allow ourselves to be overwhelmed or subverted by it. On the contrary, before the situation got hopelessly out of hand, we rallied our resources, rejected it and reversed...