Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time that the band had beaten the Bruins in four years. The Bruins are a skating band who pride themselves in the fact that they perform their shows on the ice between the period of the varsity hockey team's games...
Today, among the Portuguese the impulse to assimilate is giving way to an increased emphasis on ethnic heritage. Among the newer Portuguese immigrants, pride in national origin and customs is replacing the impulse to Americanize...
...pride of the Bruins is 6 ft. 11 in. All-Everything center Bill Walton. Walton, the only red-headed Goliath around, has turned in some of the most impressive games played by a collegiate star including last year's NCAA finals when he dropped in 21 of 22 shots from all over the field and a couple from what appeared to be several rows up in the stands to lead the UCLA'ns to the championship over upstart Memphis State. But this year, in what is supposed-to-be-wonder-year of the Bruins, Walton and All-American teammate Keith...
With a smile and a hint of boyish pride, the stout man in horn-rimmed glasses ushered Galina Ulanova into the three-room hotel suite. For the leading dancer of the Bolshoi Ballet, freshly arrived in New York on a first visit to the U.S., only the finest would do. In her refrigerator Ulanova found champagne, caviar and other necessities of the ballet life. Everywhere she looked there were flowers. In the sitting room stood the biggest surprise: a specially constructed exercise bar backed by floor-length mirrors. "So, my dear," said the man, "you can practice here...
John Grays, a professor of philosophy at MIT who has revealed his homosexuality to students and colleagues, said for him an important effect of gay liberation was personal self-acceptance, with pride replacing shame or fear of oppression...