Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...WILLIAMS explores the 26-year-old minister of the Dexter Avenue Baptist Church in Montgomery, Alabama. Dexter was King's first pastorate, and at the time, he said with pride that it "was sort of a silk-stocking church catering only to a certain class." King's life-long friend, the late Louis Lomax, put it more bluntly. As Williams quotes him, "King well knew before he assumed the pastorate... that nonprofessional and uneducated Negroes were not welcome at the Dexter Avenue altar...
...York City, but Playwright Paul Zindel has done it. He has lived, written and worked as a high school chemistry teacher on the city's lightly populated borough in the bay, Staten Island. Until last week: with a Pulitzer Prize* as a letter of recommendation, and with the pride of bachelorhood as impetus, he boarded a ferry and moved to Manhattan...
Mindful of Congress's testiness, Secretary Connally is touching every responsive chord he can reach in his defense of the loan guarantee: jobs, defense, national pride, Anglo-American relations and the future of technology. "We think the price this nation would have to pay if Lockheed went bankrupt entirely justifies this action," he said last week. "Besides, we're gonna have the additional collateral of getting our money out first." One of Connally's biggest selling points is that, unlike the final Penn Central rescue proposal, Government-backed loans to Lockheed will be paid off before...
Still Jane's life goes on, apparently as before, such moments of violence surrounded by uneventful years. Accepting her humiliations the old-fashioned way -pretending not to notice them-she takes pride in sanctioned achievements like cotton chopping. She gets religion, and she takes to Huey Long. When Jackie Robinson comes along, she turns into a Dodger fan. In the 1960s Jane's new surrogate son rises up to make an issue of segregated drinking fountains. He too is killed, but this time, almost 100 years after she tried her first step out of slavery, Jane continues that...
...upon occasion, it destroys the college careers of young men like Ray Ollwerther, Princeton '71. Despite Ollwerther's poignant plea to Tiger pride last November 13th, Yale defeated Princeton again, 27-22, for the fourth consecutive year. It's enough to make even Amory Blaine reconsider...