Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Birmingham's white community has an even larger stake in Miles, according to Monro. "I profoundly believe the good black college will help us to move toward a day of sound cultural pluralism--not assimilation--by strengthening the black community's sense of itself and its needs and pride in its heritage and its muscle and ability to do things for itself. The problem is a white problem. In segregating our black people, our Indian people, our Chicano people, what we white Americans have really done is segregate ourselves...
...seemed to lack meaning and therefore justification. The official arguments for fighting it kept changing?and kept being undermined. How could a war to stop Communist expansion be explained when President Nixon was making friends with the leaders of the two great Communist powers? To a country that takes pride in being practical, the Viet Nam dilemma seemed insoluble and ultimately too expensive by any reckoning. Morally expensive, as well. Too many memories, from My Lai to the massive bombing of last Christmas, would continue to weigh on the American spirit...
With unmistakable pride, President Nixon appeared on TV to claim that he had finally won all the terms needed to achieve what he had sought for four years: "Peace with honor." A major result: "The people of South Viet Nam have been guaranteed the right to determine their own future without outside interference." The agreement, he said, had "the full support" of Thieu, and he pledged that the U.S. still recognized Thieu's regime as "the sole legitimate government of South Viet Nam." He praised the 2,500,000 Americans who had fought in the war for taking part...
Lyndon was dead. Not the President. Not Lyndon Baines Johnson. Just Lyndon. Sadness was there, of course, but there was, too, the pride in having tempered this man. There was also the understanding that comes from living in a land where everything rises from nature, flourishes and then is taken back...
...pride of Germany must be bitter and frustrate when she knows that against her are allied all the great freedom loving and self-governing Powers of the earth. Will she find her own defeat worth all the blood and iron it cost her, all her wrecked fortune, her ruined strength...