Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that somewhere, somehow, justice could and would be found for those four martyrs. I knew and laughed with Sandy Scheuer. I lived in Youngstown for 18 years and loved it. I was proud to say I was from Ohio. Now I can't say it with the same pride. Pretty soon it's going to be hard to say I'm from America...
Perhaps the most common characteristic among Poland's young is that they share a strong sense of national pride. They believe that Poland is a vital part of Western Europe in spite of the overwhelming presence of Russia to the east. They feel a stirring of national pride each day at noon when the state radio broadcasts a single prolonged trumpet blast. It commemorates the watchman who stood atop St. Mary's Church in Cracow and spotted the Tartars invading from the east. He sounded his horn in warning until felled by a Tartar arrow...
...time, mankind spoke but one language and started building a tower to heaven. God saw that if mankind succeeded, it could be restrained in nothing. So God threw mankind into the confusion of many tongues and the tower collapsed. I learned that this story was a lesson for inflated pride. A friend of mine edits out God and says mankind failed when it changed its focus from the joyful process of building to the disintegration of goal-fixation. I have come to regard it as suggesting the dangers of premature unity...
...help working-class children rise beyond high school. Revenue sharing with the states could ease regressive local property taxes that often fall most heavily on blue collar families. In addition, the Government might update disability insurance laws. What Washington cannot do is give the workingman a renewed sense of pride...
...part of life itself: he was always there, at Confirmations and graduations and dedications of the countless schools and churches he helped build. His picture was in everyone's hallway, a fullcolor portrait cut out of the Globe when he was made a Cardinal. You took pride in his voice and his Red Sox cap and his friendship with your President because in him you had someone only Boston could produce: that blend of worldliness and sanctity, that despiser of stuffiness and lover of ritual...