Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...appreciate the staying power of the North Vietnamese, who could get along without up-to-date military hardware. When the war bogged down and his well-laid plans went awry, he seemed to fit the classic case of the man who falls because of too much pride in his rationality. Yet there is another side to the story and to the man. Obscured by his veneer was an underlying, undeniable warmth of personality. The cold rationalist by day loved parties and lively talk, and he danced endlessly at night. He was the favorite dinner companion of the Kennedy wives...
...strange new pride of the prairie is the world's largest and most powerful atom smasher. After 21 years of painstaking construction, it is scheduled to begin its first trials in the next few weeks. Batavia's planners are convinced that by fall, actual experiments in the giant particle accelerator will lead to important new insights into the basic structure of the atom and, indeed, the fundamental mysteries of the universe...
...sense, McCone and the CIA were only doing what they were paid $600 million a year to do: provide accurate information to guide American policymakers. Allowed to go its own way, largely immune to the pressures that cause other agencies to oversell policies, the CIA takes pride in its detachment. When he once briefed McNamara, the late respected operations chief, Desmond FitzGerald, expressed doubt that the data reflected the actual situation. "Why?" demanded McNamara. "It's just a feeling," replied FitzGerald. McNamara gave him a stony stare and later ordered: ''Don't ever let that man in here again...
...Much of the "new day" that has come and is coming in the South cannot be celebrated by us all. The 25% native population of Atlanta cannot take any pride in the polluted air that increasingly blankets the city's soaring buildings, in the clogged freeways for which there is no visible relief, and in the growing transient population that causes more problems than it cares about solving. Atlanta is too busy to hate, a native can tell you, simply because its white residents are too busy leaving town...
...robustly aging paterfamilias who has been separated from his wife (who else but Maureen O'Hara?) lo these 18 years. When a band of merciless marauders led by Richard Boone kidnaps Wayne's grandson and demands a million dollars ransom (in $20 bills, please), Maureen swallows her pride and sends for the Duke. As soon as he shows up, both the child's safety and a predictable quality of brawny, easygoing entertainment are guaranteed...