Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...already turned production back to the private two-acre farms rather than trying to limit opium growing to state-run agricultural enterprises, where control is easier. It has also granted amnesty to hundreds of convicted opium smugglers. All this adds up to a triumph for Turkish pride and nationalism-and Turkey's deadly white flower...
...forget that we need Kissinger more than he needs us. He is the only widely respected, farsighted and truly able diplomat who can bring about some understanding and cooperation in these times of worldwide political turmoil. Can we pride ourselves on having so many internationally successful statesmen that we can do without...
...would have wanted it said, I believe, that she well knew the pressures of pride and vanity, the sting of bitterness and defeat, the gray days of national peril and personal anguish. But she clung to the confident expectation that men could fashion their own tomorrows if they could only learn that yesterday can be neither relived nor revised...
...quietness and humility were not to be mistaken for weakness or passivity. Indeed, her presence was a positive force, which had great and obvious impact on Martin Luther King Jr. She saw the vanity and emptiness of false pride and puffery. She knew that movement and progress did not just happen. Hers was a constant admonition to young (and old) black men and women to maintain a constant vigilance for our share of life's resources and to use those resources for the protection and advancement of those who had known the sting of bitterness and oppression...
...church in which she was slain. Members of the Ebenezer Baptist Church and most of us who worked closely with her son, Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., knew her as Mother King. It was not difficult to call her mother. She was first and foremost, and with great pride, a wife and mother. She was a black woman of unspoiled ideals, living a life of example and challenge that gave meaning to the latent and elusive concepts of love and respect for human worth...