Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoopla at the Houston Astrodome last week. The putative Battle of the Sexes turned out to be one more sorry chapter in the story of the ancient struggle between sclerotic age and limber youth. In three straight sets that lasted 2 hr. 5 min., Billie Jean King, 29, the pride of women's tennis, briskly dispatched Robert Larimore Riggs, the huckster who had hustled the world of spectator sportsmen into believing that you really can go home again...
BROWN-URI--Brown is going to win back a lot of lost pride this year. The Bruins have a new coach and have developed some talent to go with his fresh approach. Hubie Morgan is a runner to watch. The Bruins are on the upswing. Brown...
...became known as "Pappy." He used such players as Ward Bond, Victor McLaglen and Harry Carey Jr. so frequently that they became known as the Ford Stock Company. Did his leading men exhibit an austere devotion to their wimmenfolk? The devout Catholic took particular pride in his long marriage to an Irish sweetheart, Mary McBryde Smith. Were Ford characters patriots? When World War II came along, despite a personal battle with blindness, Ford volunteered for overseas duty. He directed the Navy's film documentary unit, received a machine-gun wound at the battle of Midway, gathered evidence...
After the Faculty passed its January Afro resolution, Guinier said he feared the directorship of the Institute would fall to someone outside the Afro Department. "DuBois's name should not be defamed by someone who doesn't believe in the 'pride of race' which he lived for," Guinier said...
...Miniaturization of cameras and the like means that within the next ten years we'll be almost as portable as radio." Unlike some analysts, Cronkite does not believe that new electronic wizardry will render the anchorman obsolete. He voices pride that the Evening News "has been and will be totally lacking in show-biz gimmickry." A pattern that has worked for ten years, he insists, will not be lightly changed...