Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After the cable car and the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco takes a particular civic pride in its unique sourdough bread. Its special qualities depend on a yeastlike "starter" used in the baking, and locals are fond of arguing that the city's cool, foggy climate gives it qualities that cannot be duplicated...
Council in Ghana has tried to set the fee at a modest and uniform $35, but many parents feel this is much too low for their family's pride and their daughter's honor...
Missing Link. Sanchez was the particular pride of the Loyalists. The year after the Paris Exposition, the hard-pressed Madrid government allotted some of their meager funds to send him to Moscow to teach drawing to evacuated Spanish children. Although Sanchez was not a Communist, he remained there until his death in 1962, an event that passed unmentioned in the controlled Spanish press. But Franco's Spain has mellowed since then, and this summer the exile was welcomed home posthumously with a large exhibition of his sculpture, drawings and stage designs at Madrid's Museum of Contemporary...
...Radcliffe the situation is more complicated, because women do have the desire to succeed academically-but it must be remember that academic success per?se is a significantly inferior quality in a community where creativity and brilliance at the ideal, where men pride themselves on their capacity to spend a semester directing plays, then walk ? to an exam and do as well as a woman who has spent the semester gri?fing...
...radical sympathies were strengthened by the experience of being down and out on the seamy side of Hollywood. Supported by S.J. Perelman, who had married his sister, West lived in the Pa-Va-Sed, a scabby little apartment hotel in the lower depths of movieland. The experience hurt his pride and damaged his health, but it gave him the boiling background for the best novel ever written about Hollywood...