Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University's affirmative action plan finally received government approval last fall, but that is no cause for pride or self-congratulations. The fact that it took the University three years and four separate attempts to meet the federal government's minimal standards for fair hiring of minorities and women is, on the other hand, considerable cause for shame...
...have taken reluctant and delayed pride in being one of the practitioners of the art. Some day-s-o-m-e d-a-y-I will cut out the article and frame it for my den wall...
...therefore ordinary. Yet Aristotle, judging the temperaments of men, exalted the intermediate and argued that anything more extreme was either excess or defect. To him there was, for example, a desirable quality called bravery, and on one side of it cowardice, and on the other, foolhardiness. There was pride, and on one side of it boasting, and on the other, excessive modesty. This sort of cataloguing, while admirable, soon begins sounding as platitudinous as Polonius ? morality by characterization...
...person wanting to be understood as commonsensible and undoctrinaire will describe himself or herself complacently as middle-of-the-road. So loosely defined a term, as with the similar pride in being an "independent voter," invites a lot of freeloaders. The middle is thus the natural hiding place for the uninvolved. It includes in its domain hordes of the indifferent, who call themselves tolerant, and of the uncaring, who think themselves pragmatic and flexible. Such people are apt to congratulate themselves on being superior to those who strive, who get worked up, who agitate for causes, who make demands...
...Eitan addressed the men. "This hill is a symbol both for us and for the Syrians. At this place, the closest we reached to Damascus, we overcame the enemy. We have no illusions, but we hope that by handing it over we bring peace closer. We leave here with pride. If there is need, we will return." With that a parade of armored personnel carriers, Jeeps and Centurion tanks headed down the hill, leaving behind only smashed bunkers, broken cartridge boxes and garbage. The last tank to leave was numbered 141. In October it had been the first to reach...