Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...replied, "I would have had to drink to my health 24 hours out of 24. But little Maurice was playing it cool. I don't want to hand myself around like a resort booklet. I'm reserving myself for the stage." He could have said with pride that he kept that reservation all his life...
...Quiet Pride. Nixon's weak domestic record suffered further from the jolting defeat by Congress of his proposal to develop a supersonic jet transport aircraft. The event seemed to say that Americans are not only concerned about the environment, but no longer automatically buy the notion that the U.S. must always be first in everything...
...integration, even as the courts often continued to encourage it. The President perhaps has a majority of Americans behind him in that view, but the fact remains that in many cities no other tool seems to exist to break up all-black schools. But the Nixon Administration takes quiet pride in its work in finishing the demolition of the dual school systems of the South, and also in encouraging craft unions, via the Philadelphia Plan, to admit and train minority members...
...Economic Policy, our new tax policy, which may come along, the New American Revolution, revenue sharing and the rest. But as I see it, what I would hope to have come out of next year is to instill again in the American people a sense of confidence in themselves, pride in the fact that with all of our failings in foreign policy ?and we have had failures?we are doing our level best, whether it is in a miserable place like the conflict in South Asia, or in the Mideast or other places, to keep the peace rather than...
...public relations puffery, to (and down with) the Titanic and the Lusitania, and finally down to (but not with) the excellent but irrelevant Q.E. 2. The author proves again that the sea, at least when perceived from an armchair, is morally instructive. A repeated theme is that of pride brought low. The star of the American-owned Collins Line was the Arctic, an opulent sidewheeler launched in 1850. The ship was four years old when, steaming at full speed through fog over the Grand Banks, freighted with "manhood in its strength and daring, and woman in her trust and beauty...