Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...another means of expressing frustration. One remembers the growing sense of resignation, while marching down streets, block after block in the pouring rain of New York City calling to the curious officeworkers "Join us, join us, it's your fight too;" and one remembers the sense of pride when one of the onlookers says "God bless you, I will." One remembers people sharing food and belongings, as well as beliefs, so that one elderly woman participating in a protest for the first time last month could say, "I am proud to be an American for the first time in years...
...leaflets and black eagles and "Boycott Lettuce" signs to the icy sidewalks and the icier stares of the produce manager; the real reaons begin the brown earth of the Southwest with the brown hands that cultivate it. They are not the hands of the small family farmer whose sturdy pride we romantically recall, nor do they hold stock in the huge conglomerates that employ them. The four million workers who cultivate our winter vegetables are a rural proletariat whose living and working conditions sound like passages from an outdated muckraking novel...
When the team opened its season at Indiana this year there were 12,330 fans ready and anxious to cheer every Indiana basket, foul shot and rebound. Indiana fans take such pride in their cheering, in fact, that a select group of students has been chosen this year to sit in a special cheering section to help boost the Hoosiers...
Died. Ludwig Stossel, 89, Austrian actor who came to the U.S. as a middle-aged refugee, stayed to play kindly old Germans in more than 50 movies (Lou Gehrig's father in Pride of the Yankees, Albert Einstein in The Beginning or the End), but got his widest audience as the "little old winemaker" of 1960s TV commercials; in Hollywood...
HUGHES WASN'T A LITERARY MAN, and he lacked the Victorian preoccupation with searching that better writers possessed. But his almost innocent and completely straightforward pride in things like the British Empire is very revealing of one part of the Victorian attitude. And the book's final and complete commitment to the combination of gentlemanly Christianity as a mirror for rulers--even on a level meant for a nine year-old--is a far cry from much that this century, including the BBC's Tom Brown's School Days is quite willing to represent...