Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Piggy Pride...
...aren't going to like this, but your favorite whipping boys, the Chicago police, now refer to each other as PIG. The term is not used, however, in a derogatory sense since the three letters point up the motto awarded them by a grateful public: Pride, Integrity and Guts...
...South than in many non-Southern communities that pride themselves on racial enlightenment. Often the South's desegregation amounts to tokenism; half of the 2,779 school districts in eleven Southern states are technically desegregated, but only 18% of the region's black students actually attend school with whites. But where it has been well tried, as in east Texas or northern Georgia, there has been relatively little friction after the initial cultural shock has worn off. Politicians are, however, again arousing passions, private white academies are proliferating, and resistance to more integration is growing. Such calm advice as that...
More than anything else, pride will be at stake as the traditional rivals battle for fourth place in the Ivies. Both teams have had disappointing-and remarkably similar-seasons, with injuries and personnel problems taking their toll...
...live nine-year-old Maxine's ebullience, you share her wondrous obsession with what sex is really about. You live Jose's paralyzing fear and hatred of all things having to do with school; you feel at one moment his absolute uncertainty, at the next his indomitable but anxious pride, at the next the growing sense of security in his relationship with George, his tutor and friend. Dennison lures you into the being of those very real children. For that achievement alone his book is an important one in contemporary educational writings...