Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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THERE are several possible reasons for this general allegiance in spite of protest. First, the young people in Yugoslavia possess a real pride in their country. Yugoslavia for centuries has been under foreign domination by the Turks, Austrians, and other major powers. Now it is remarkably independent. In Yugoslav cities people still often mention how the Partisans drove the Nazis from their land at greast costs, but without Soviet assistance. The students are tired of old men's war stories, but they have a deep respect for past suffering...
...Lions' pride was wounded again when bookies made them 3½-point undercats in the Orange Bowl against the high-powered Missouri Tigers (9-1). That was all Penn State and the Lions' voluble ringmaster, Joe Paterno, needed. "We're No. 1 as far as I'm concerned," said Paterno, and his boys made a sound case for his claim. They intercepted Tiger Quarterback Terry McMillan five times. When Missouri Coach Dan Devine sent in another pitcher, Chuck Roper, the Penn State secondary responded by intercepting two more throws for a record total of seven. Penn...
...nation ?and Middle America cast much of the vote. In death, John Kennedy is also a hero. Ironically, Robert Kennedy had the allegiance of much of Middle America along with his constituency of blacks and the young. Whatever their politics, both Kennedys had an idealism about America, a pride about it to which Middle Americans responded because they shared...
...Washington Post, TIME, the Ridder newspapers and the Baltimore Sun, Agnew's hometown paper. When the Sun complained, Agnew's press secretary Herbert Thompson replied: "To be quite honest, he doesn't like the Sun. He feels he is a hometown boy, and instead of taking pride in him, [the Sun] acts like it is ashamed of him." The Hearst papers got a seat without applying for one. With spots reserved for U.S. News & World Report, the Chicago Tribune and a correspondent for the Nashville (Tenn.) Banner, the Greenville (S.C.) News and the Jackson (Miss.) Daily News...