Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visit to the Midlands, the industrial region hardest hit by the two-day layoffs, TIME Correspondent William McWhirter last week found Britons managing remarkably well despite the current economic dislocations. "If there is any pride around the Midlands," cabled McWhirter, "it is that they have managed to cope with half-time employment better than anyone else could have. This is our specialty, mate,' said Jack Hebbs, a Midlands shop steward. 'Patch and improvise. The Germans would go running for their rule books, and the French would be out marching with the red flags. We know the routine...
...know that time is running out for both of them. Perhaps the fight will be as dramatic as their last clash in 1971, but by any measure the stakes are not. Frazier is no longer the defending heavyweight champion of the world; he is defending little more than his pride because George Foreman took away his title with a surprise knockout last January in Jamaica. Ali, after being beaten by Frazier three years ago and by Ken Norton last March, can no longer claim that he lost the title only because his disagreement with the draft law forced him into...
Ever-so-slowly, Gardner works his two desperate characters out of their bitterness. Death loses its hold, and the struggle for meaning in life finds its way into Nickel Mountain. Henry reaches out to his neighbors, when their pride prevents them from asking help. Gardner gives Henry a down-home kind of wisdom. Henry realizes that if you just think somebody is being stabbed, you have to jump on the guy with the knife. And even if it was just an illusion, you have to get up, dust yourself off, ignore derision, and be prepared to do it again. Anything...
...made Britannica 3 possible was onetime University of Chicago vice president (1937-45) and U.S. Senator (1949-53) William Benton, Encyclopaedia Britannica's majority stockholder and publisher for 30 years. Despite his pride in the current, 14th edition (first published in 1929), he supported his editors' decision to produce a totally new encyclopaedia and agreed to finance the venture. Benton was not on hand for the unveiling; he died last March, two weeks before his 73rd birthday. But in Britannica 3, he has a monument as impressive as any man could want...
...paper's civic pride can occasionally be cloying. It goes into annual paroxysms of praise over such events as the state fair and the Fourth of July circus wagon parade (sample lead: "The parade wasn't long and the route was short, but the enthusiasm . . . ). Although it does send reporters and editorial writers on international fact-finding tours, the paper's thrust is unabashedly local...