Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tradition of campus prestige and pride. Some point to the hockey team...
McCroskey's experience points to two crucial areas that are essential to an understanding of the current evolution of Harvard swimming, the demise of the freshman swimming program and the role personal pride and performance plays in keeping a swimmer swimming competitively...
...applied for a job with an aluminum company in Newnan, she was greeted with the predictable, "Are you serious?" She talked her way into a job, for which she had to commute 110 miles a day. That forced her to quit after a year, but she remembers with pride, "When I left, the company vice president said I was probably the best aluminum welder he had ever employed...
...like combative advertising that hits competing products head-on," she says. But she bridles at ads that she finds insulting to women, particularly those that portray the empty-headed sex bomb, the "dumbbelle" driver or the mindless housewife cooing ecstatically over the latest detergent or deodorant. "Women take pride in keeping house, but it is silly to have them gushing over a clean floor. An effective dishwasher ad should show a woman competently operating a machine." she says. As for some supposedly sexy ads: "Girls smiling seductively from bathtubs appeal to ad directors, not women customers." These ads, she argues...
...Knothole Gang. There is Robinson, first Negro in the majors: the racial abuse he endured on and off the field, his testiness, the later tragedy of his son's delinquency and fatal car crash. What Kahn does is rekindle for a younger, less patient generation the pride of a remarkable athlete who wanted to be recognized and paid as such. That Robinson eventually be came a prosperous, overweight Republican has a perfect and glorious consistency...