Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suave courtliness, a leader of the Boy Scouts and the Red Cross, he had gone to good schools (Brown, Cambridge, Northwestern Law), and married the daughter of former Mayor Anton Cermak. Kerner's father who had worked himself up from poverty to the federal bench, beamed with pride as he swore in his son as a US attorney. Mayor Richard Daley then recruited Kerner as a blue-ribbon candidate to run for Governor in 1960 against William Stratton, whose administration had been plagued by scandal...
ATER 25 years of open or undercover warfare, neither Israel nor the Arab states can find much pride or glory any longer in the killing. But Israel last week carried aggression to new heights. Over the occupied Sinai peninsula, Israeli Phantoms scrambled to intercept an unarmed Libyan Arab Airlines Boeing 727 jet that was bound for Cairo and almost certainly had lost its way. The Israelis shot it down, killing 105 of the 111 people on board...
...Meany pronounced "attractive" a proposed Nixon bill that would instead give the President discretionary power to raise tar iffs against nations that are thought to discriminate against U.S. goods. Also, labor leaders pledged to be "cooperative" about keeping any strikes this year to a minimum. Nixon has taken great pride in recent labor peace, and puts a high priority on keeping the now-humming economy from developing a case of 1973 strike sputters...
...with his usual comprehensive knowledge and compassion, tells us that the word means forgiveness. Everyone makes mistakes, he concedes--he has made mistakes himself--but mistakes must be paid for. With unwonted generosity, Nixon even acknowledges the asylum most governments have offered American refugees. Like the good Christian in Pride and Prejudice, the President is willing to forgive those he considers trangressors as long as they are never again admitted to his sight and never again mentioned in his hearing...
Reliance on the Federal government for funding is not one of the pleasanter facts of life at Harvard. Harvard's pride in its status as a private, independent institution is highly incongruous with its financial needs, but as long as Federal funding was increasing annually, the University could ignore the inconsistency...