Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign there personally. The most Europe-minded of the Continent's leaders, he was also saddened by the insistence of Britain's new Labor government that it would "renegotiate" the terms on which it entered the Common Market. Nor could he draw much comfort from Ostpolitik, the pride of his term. As exchanges between East and West slowed, critics accused Brandt of having given away more to the Communists than he had obtained. Brandt was thus already very close to giving up the chancellorship when Guillaume was arrested...
Brandt established an image abroad for himself as a man of fairness and integrity, which did much to restore a sense of pride to the West German nation. In both East and West he made Germany salonfáhig (socially acceptable). No longer did young German tourists in France or Holland have to pretend that they were Swedes, and no longer did the governments of Eastern Europe blame all their problems on the "revanchist West Germans." During the 1972 national election, which he won handily, Brandt chose a slogan that would have been unthinkable only a few years earlier: GERMANS...
...EGYPTIAN PRIDE. Nasser was the first true Egyptian to rule this country in more than 2,000 years. But in spite of all that foreign domination, our personality never dissolved. One of the principal elements in the success of our battle last October was the faith of every Egyptian, the pride he feels for his land, and the very name Egypt itself...
PHILADELPHIA--Crimson Pride. The ability to win the big game. That's how Harvard coach Loyal Park summed up yesterday's crucial twinbill sweep, 2-1, 7-5, of Penn here yesterday...
...hard to take pride in a bridge you're never gonna cross, in a door you're never gonna open. You're mass-producing things and you never see the end result of it. How are you gonna get excited about pullin' steel? It's the nonrecognition by other people ... [A fellow with a college degree] saw a book in my back pocket one time and he was amazed. He walked up to me and he said, 'You read?' I said, 'What do you mean, I read?' He said...