Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...echo themes of loneliness (rather than alienation), alcohol (rather than drugs), and poverty (for which hard work and a sense of dignity rather than social awareness is the remedy). Singing about hobos and prisons, Haggard feels like a protest singer, a spokesman for the working man who has his pride or the railroad bum who has his dreams...
...have been deeply saddened by this whole course of events, and I hope that you and your family will be sustained in the days ahead by a well-justified pride in all that you have contributed to the nation by your years of service as vice president. Sincerely, Richard Nixon
...with clarity and power, although it wouldn't have taken much to please the thoroughly stoned crowd. Some of her admirers rushed the stage to present her with kisses, a rose, and an empty Schlitz bottle. Testing the range of her voice, she mixed ballads like "Love Has No Pride" and Browne's "Under the Falling Sky" with boogie tunes like "You've Got to Know How" and "Love Me Like A Man," building to two encores...
That forceful defense is typical of his professional pride and manner. Born in Philadelphia and a Marine in World War II, Petersen earned a B.A. from Georgetown University and a law degree from Catholic University's Columbus Law School. He began Government service as a clerk for the FBI 25 years ago, shifted to the Justice Department in 1951, and has climbed steadily throughout his career there. Associates describe him as tough as nails...
...gesture, skipping school to trail shady relatives around New Orleans, insulting proper ones. The writing often recalls Gertrude Stein's stonier prose - obdurate, flat and mannered. Hellman is a virtuoso of ellipsis, a quality that doubtless served her well as a dramatist. In Pentimento she seems to take pride in leaving out connectives, or capping a half-told tale with a brief coda, unrelated except for the faintest resonance of tone...