Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...atavistic ritual, mythical folklore and abject cruelty. He watches a group of Indian fishermen pull their small nets along the shore, hearing the hypnotic harmony of their voices all shouting in an unknown language. Sitting outside a Hindu Temple he finds a senile old man who says with wonderful pride that he works there as a "holy water carrier." He sees two Muslim men, their bodies blackened with soot, dancing at midday on a deserted street of a small village. Driving along a highway he stops to film vultures stripping a dead water buffalo of its flesh, burrowing into...
...farm of the future. It emphatically does not subscribe to the notion that inefficient farmers must be kept on the land for the sake of tradition. Not for Nixon or Butz or Shultz the sentiment of the English poet Oliver Goldsmith: "But a bold peasantry, their country's pride/ When once destroyed can never be supplied." "Farming isn't a way of life," says Butz. "It's a way to make a living." He regards as inevitable the growing consolidation of farms, while marginal ones close down at the rate of 865 a week...
...ANGARA VALLEY, north of the old caravan-crossroads city of Irkutsk, is being opened up through dams on the Angara and Yenisei rivers. Nearby will be smelters, wood industries and chemical factories. The Russians' pride is the $1 billion Bratsk Dam, which was completed in 1964 after ten years of hardship and which contains as much masonry as the Great Pyramid of Cheops. "That was our October," says one veteran, using the image of the Russian Revolution to describe the days when construction workers lived in tents at temperatures of 60° below zero. Today the effort is being...
...small step further to absurdity, they can be expected to flush out some of the books behind these titles, then publish scholarly articles that take issue with the books, then letters to the editors, pointing out the errors of the articles. Author Sobel, in the meantime, can take pride in his strange art. Like any good games player, he knows that reality is what you make...
...jovial nature, Melchior had his share of pride. He departed from the Met in 1950 after General Manager Rudolf Bing approached lesser singers first with new contracts. Melchior threatened to withdraw unless his agreement was renewed immediately; Bing, notoriously unsympathetic to any ultimatum...