Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...position is more immoral now than when we entered the war," he said. "We realize now that there is no purpose in protecting a corrupt government. We are killing not for principle but for pride...
...chance. Driven by pride and the promise of a $15,000 payoff for each player on the winning team, Thomas and the rest of the Cowboys rolled over Miami like an automated machine. In the battle of the quarterbacks, the Dolphins' Bob Griese proved no match for the Cowboys' Roger Staubach. Griese, who gave up a costly fumble and an interception, was stymied at every turn by the Cowboys' tenacious Doomsday Defense. Staubach, meanwhile, piloted the Cowboys' ball-control offense to perfection. Sending Running Backs Thomas, Walt Garrison and Calvin Hill through holes as broad...
...decades, Mauldin has been one of America's better-known political cartoonists. Yet his approach to his own story, which he carries only up to his mustering-out day in 1945, is one of embarrassed wonder and unembarrassed pride. His boyhood had been spent well below the poverty line. Yet just ten years after he started cartooning from a correspondence course, Willie, his best-known creation, was on the cover of TIME, a book of his cartoons was No. 1 on the bestseller list, and 200 newspapers had signed up for his future output. He was still only...
...America are very weary of the cycle of wars that seems to infinitely go on, for causes no one believes in, causes not worth the deaths; and war has come to be seen as the pure expression of aggression or blindness or pride. Peace is there to be won, one must only want it and it will be within reach. Yet such an attitude, for all its moral validity, is naive in that it ignores the complex traps set by History for unsuspecting nations, out of which develop a tragedy of circumstance, of unavoidable war, whose victory is unobtainable...
...separation between science education and the society it is to serve is not limited to the life sciences alone. Sometimes physical sciences can cause new problems in the process of solving older ones. Not long ago, the Dean of Berkeley's College of Engineering was overheard speaking with pride of the development of a mechanical tomato-picking machine. This development and other researches would eventually eliminate the need to pick delicate fruits and vegetables by hand...