Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whether Hamm's intent was to build up black pride or encourage quasi-revolutionary notions, the idea seemed naively incendiary. Certainly the white members of the school board thought so. John Cervase filed a complaint charging that the raising of a flag "was a subject of deep significance" to the community, and won a court order demanding that the board show cause why it should not rescind the resolution. In addition, two New Jersey legislators introduced bills that would bar schools from flying the black liberation flag-or, for that matter, any ethnic or national banner other than...
...ultimate tragedy of Americans using their power against a people with whom they have no gripe. The tragedy is also a military one. "You can't run a retreat like this. Nobody wants his legs blown off in the last day of a war to save the president's pride." Sadly, bitterly, he explains that the Vietnam War is just that--a desperate effort to save the pride of a President. "He's got to be number one. He must establish that this man will not be our first President to lose...
...Roman Catholic Church has maintained itself with pride as a completely male dominated and male controlled institution for 20 centuries. Because of the serious questioning that has assaulted the Catholic Church during the last five or six years, its survival in the future is strongly tied with how it will respond to the needs of the female half of the Catholic constituency...
...repressive social roles in large part perpetrated by a celibate male Church leadership. In partial disagreement with women liberationists both Mary Daly and Ann Kelley see the Catholic tradition as being strong and deep enough to embrace new definitions of being a woman. Ann Kelley notes with some pride that nuns like herself may have been the first liberated females in their rejection of the traditional role of woman as sex object, house keeper, and mother. But having rejected those roles and having given up her status as a professional teacher, while still being denied all traditional pastoral roles...
After a court-martial had acquitted him of all charges related to his role in the My Lai massacre, Captain Ernest L. Medina carried out his previously announced decision to leave the Army. Said Medina: "I just feel within myself that I cannot wear the uniform with the same pride I had before." A month later, Medina, nattily turned out in a gray suit, blue shirt and wide red tie, came into the courtroom where his onetime commander, Colonel Oran K. Henderson, was on trial for covering up the tragedy at My Lai. By the time Medina had finished testifying...