Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans only by cliché. There is the 19th century image, caught in bronze and in lithograph, of the defeated warrior, head drooping forward so that his feathers nearly mingle with his pony's mane. The bow of his shoulders and the slump of his body evoke his loss of pride, of green and fertile lands, of earth's most favored continent. Then there is a recent image, often seen through air-conditioned automobile windows. Grinning shyly, the fat squaw hawks her woven baskets along the reservation highway, the dusty landscape littered with rusting cars, crumbling wickiups and bony cattle...
...play. All the Southie guys storm out into the lobby, and you can just tell that they're pissed as hell, but no one says anything. It's too early for a jam, and what the hell, two goals isn't really that much. But it's the pride thing, you understand. Southie is never down 2-0 to anyone...
...This is God's country," says Sallisaw Methodist Minister Don Williams, "and I ought to know." Adds one Sallisaw native: "Every time they have an earthquake or a hippie rebellion in California, another handful of Okies comes back home." That mixture of parochial pride and disdain for urban problems elsewhere may yet make Oklahoma one of the last bastions of white, middle-class American society...
Would-Be Hero. Some games, as the Opies note, are little more than statements of vitality, "made bearable, very often, only by the pride that the young take in the practice of stoicism." This is certainly the case with "kingy," a game the authors rate as the leading unofficial sport of British schoolboys (see cut). It is "a ball game in which those who are not He ["It" in the U.S.] have the ball hurled at them, without means of retaliation, and against ever-increasing odds, an element that obviously appeals to the national character. Anyone...
...circus tent. It has no pride...