Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prize money, and Gonzalez is determined to get the lion's share. Not that Pancho is exactly strapped for cash. He has been topping $100,000 annually from tennis and other interests for the past several years. What keeps him going is the same fierce pride that has marked the moody, 6-ft. 3-in. Mexican-American ever since he arrived on the scene in 1949, firmly convinced that "I'm the best tennis player in the world." There have been disbelievers from time to time: in 1955 the promoters of one tour guaranteed Tony Trabert...
...setting is a recreation of last year's battle. Harvard had clinched the Intercollegiate title because Penn had been upset by Williams earlier in the season. But the Ivy title, and more importantly, the pride of the two teams was on the line...
...dialogue consists of newspaper lines-hardly the way people speak. The jokes grow out of political jargon and do not arise from human relationships. But when the Prince replies "Horseshit!" to an American platitude about "a new spirit of pride in Nonomura." a human being is talking and it got the biggest laugh of the night...
...WASN'T always this way. Doug came to Harvard like most other people-the pride of his large public high school, semi-athletic, a go-getter, eager fall. It has a shot-by-shot analysis of Z as its feature story, and Doug takes a look at it nearly every...
When a war between nations is lost The loser, we know, pays the cost; But even when Germany fell to your hands You left them their pride and you left them their land...