Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mixture of pride, the pleasure of being governor, and perhaps a sense of duty have motivated him to try for a third term in office, but when he retires to his ranch in northern Arkansas, his unique position within the state-a blend of aristocrat, philanthropist, business leader, and politician-should allow him to exert his presence long after he is governor...
...both Nicholas and the mildly reformist Provisional Government. They had propelled the Communists to victory at the Winter Palace, and the valiant support which they rendered the fledgling regime during the stormy days after the October insurrection had prompted Minister of War Leon Trotsky to hail them as "the pride and glory of the revolution...
...Pride" [July 13] makes a brief and trivial point. You can bet, by damn, that if all homosexuals were black, or members of some other over-sponsored minority, doubtless some august institution like the late Warren Court would long ago have clamped a doubly protective constitutional shield around us. Individual dignity, it seems, comes in only a few colors these days, none of which is lavender...
...place for parents who can no longer live at home. One 81-year-old woman was persuaded to go to a nursing home when her daughter, with whom she had always lived, married late in life. To her own surprise, she is happier than she was before, taking great pride in reading to and helping her older roommate. A difficult decision of the middle-aged is how to allot their resources between children and parents and still provide for their own years of retirement, which may well extend for two decades...
...Meredith's case, the style was truly the reflection of the man. For all his sermons against the sin of pride, he was an egoist writing about egoism. Thus the modern reader of his books is nearly suffocated by the presence of Mine Host, nudging, lecturing, possessed, as the novelist himself confessed, by the "cursed desire to show the reason." Nonetheless, it was Meredith's "splendid vanity," concludes Pritchett, that gave him the strength to put his contradictions on the line and struggle to resolve them. That, for Meredith, was what it meant to write a novel...