Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...irony of COPA's predicament is a sad one for the Portuguese people in Cambridge. For while COPA has based its campaign of political mobilization on the issues of ethnic identity and national pride, their major obstacle has been the heritage of oppression and forced non-involvement that the Portuguese bring with them from Portugal...
...please. Shedding his scholarship, he becomes downright folksy as he reminds his constituents how he has looked after them in Washington-and indeed he has. While fretting over international problems, he has always found time to promote such Arkansas products as soybeans and poultry. His constituents, moreover, take pride in his international reputation even if they do not share his views. Local buttons popped when Henry Kissinger visited Little Rock last month to confer with Fulbright on the Middle East oil talks...
...fact, Reich in its first 48-page issue unsparingly documents the truth that Nazism, while seeded in the depths of Germany's post-World War I economic depression, bloomed in the resurgence of nationalistic pride created by Hitler and his henchmen. Symbols of that pride dominate photographs illustrating actual news dispatches of the day or adorning a 1932-33 chronicle of Germany's cultural and sporting life: Boxer Max Schmeling fighting America's Jack Sharkey for the world's heavyweight title; Marlene Dietrich posing in a scene from one of her early film triumphs...
...prize of food) that make their own comment set against the distant pomp of the royal court. The musketeers move through both these worlds with equal ease, yet are part of neither. Their sworn allegiance is to the King, Louis XIII, and against Richelieu, but they are men of pride. Their greatest battle and concern are simply to stay alive. For though they would call themselves their own men, they belong to Louis-pawns like the pet dogs he uses for his life-size games of chess in the gardens...
...from formal education, which he abandoned in high school. The learning that mattered to him began almost at birth. His childhood in turn-of-the-century Oxford, Miss., was spent listening to Civil War tales told by old men who had been at Shiloh and Appomattox. He absorbed family pride indirectly from his illustrious great-grandfather Colonel William C. Falkner (as the name was then spelled), hero, scoundrel, founder of a railroad and writer who became the doomed, quixotic colonel of Sartoris in 1929. Blotner devotes 50 pages to the recitation of every known fact about the old colonel, forgetting...