Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terribly proud man" who detested weakness in other people and often spoke "disparagingly of those whom he felt to be soft and expedient." Indeed, by the end of his presidency, "his pride and personal contempt for weakness had overcome his ability to tell the difference between right and wrong. . . He was out of touch with reality...
...George Jackson, president of the Harvard Black Student Athletes Association, will also have reason to shine with pride; for the first blow stuck will symbolize the successful completion of an odyssey in boxing promotion that would make Don King blush with envy...
...Smythe division champs from Chicago had any pride, they would not even accept the first round bye. Eleventh overall, seven games under .500 in divisional hockey's equivalent to double-A ball, the Black Hawks have Tony Esposito between the twines, Tom Lysiak at center, Bobby Orr in the press box, and not much else. In fact, nothing else. Say good-bye to them in the quarters...
...made his first foray into the state since announcing his candidacy. In speeches and press conferences, he called for new decisive leadership to rescue the U.S. from the grasp of oil sheiks and end the dollar's decline. Said he: "We're going to have to reinstill pride in America for what we are, for what we've been. Somehow, we're going to have to save the world again...
...catalogue, all recorded in Wade-Giles. "We cannot possibly cope with such a change now," says Librarian Wu. Similarly discouraged was the head archivist of the oriental manuscripts section of France's largest library, the Bibliothèque Nationale, who found Pinyin "unreliable" and, with true Gallic pride, "terrible for French...