Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...motivating force behind the unionization drives is a combination of pay and pride. The average starting salary of a secretary at Harvard, for instance, is between $107 and $38, while the average salary for all Boston secretaries is $152. Secretaries at Harvard complain that it is hard to advance through the University's three-grade secretarial pay scale...
...hard to say whether Slingerland resigned out of pride or because she thought the move would accomplish something, but most council members and U Hall observers seemed to regard it as an unusual exercise in futility. After the storm blew over, the council gave Expos a little more money and sent the office a nice conciliatory note--and next year, all freshmen will take Expos, under a new standardized curriculum. The whole affair is harldy likely to make anyone think that stormy resignations get things done at Harvard...
...course, my dad still has his copy of the Willie Mays Song. You may not remember this hit from the past--it came out as a 78-rpm single around 1954, it's got a happy chorus about how Willie is Leo's Pride and Joy, and whenever the chorus says, "Say, Hey," Willie comes on obediently and says, "Hey." They probably didn't market it right, either, but in any event, a friend of mine last year discovered a bunch of wild-eyed autograph-seeking juveniles around a pink Cadillac with California plates parked near Shea Stadium with...
...razorback, and J. William Fulbright is an owl in gabardine. Though they did not profess to understand him very well or to endorse many of his views, the voters of Arkansas had for 30 years been sending Bill Fulbright to Washington. Like fond, if slightly baffled parents, they took pride in the national and global attention he won as the Senate's foremost authority on foreign affairs...
...challenge to Britain that it must govern us as it governs Scotland and Wales. We're quite happy to do without [our own] parliament if necessary, provided of course that we would have equal [representation] in Westminster. We had to take the stand we did for our own pride. More and more people began to think that the Protestants would simply let things slide without a protest. The strike has been a sharp reminder to them that that is the last thing we are going to let happen...