Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Plato capped his story of Atlantis with a stern moral. For generation after generation, he related, the people "easily bore the burden, as it were, of the vast volume of their gold and other goods; and thus their wealth did not make them drunk with pride so that they lost control of themselves." But in the end that was just what did happen. The Atlanteans "lost their comeliness, through being unable to bear the burden of their possessions, and became ugly to look upon, in the eyes of him [Zeus] who has the gift of sight . . . filled as they were...
...adrenaline freaks who love the challenge of a fire and take pride in their intricate special skills. They exult in the "victory" when a blaze is beaten down. In the busy companies, Smith explains, the morale is tremendous. The men scramble for the front position on the hose; they take a military pride in their battle scars; and in the heat of a fire fight they would die to save a victim from the flames - and in fact they often do. In Smith's well-supported opinion, they are indeed "New York's Bravest...
...know more about the man than he has already told us in his writing. In particular it seems that James Agee was the kind of man very vulnerable to women. For the most part, fraternity and compassion are all that he allowed himself in his fiction. His eroticism, his pride, and his tenderness were such vital parts of his expression, that until his wives and children, and the women he worked with, are willing to disclose what personal contact they had with Agee, one side of the man will be entirely lost...
Despite the apparent reasons for prejudice, however, little antagonism exists between the diggers and the townspeople. The townspeople are well aware of Winchester's heritage, and look upon the Winchester excavations with generous pride. The considerable cooperation from the townsfolk and the local government alike has been one key to the remarkable success of the Winchester project, for without amiable community relations, an excavation that is so visible, and on so large a scale, in the heart of a busy city, could not have continued...
...Circulation fell to 700,000 with the switch but quickly recovered in six months, and has been rising ever since. "I don't think the old paper really hurt anybody," Pope says, "but I'm not particularly proud of what it was." Today Pope has both pride and profit. He will not say how much the paper makes, but he is building a beachfront mansion near Palm Beach. "People who wouldn't spit on us before," he says, "are clamoring to write stories for us-Congressmen, Cabinet officers, even J. Edgar Hoover...