Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Karl Wallenda, the patriarch, would not give up. "It is our pride," he said. "I feel better if I go up again. Down here on the ground I break all to pieces." Some of his partners were less determined. "I'm scared silly every time I go on," said Gunther Wallenda, a nephew. Karl's second wife Helen, who once performed in the act, refused even to watch it any longer. "I always sit in a back room and pray," she said. Wallenda was adamant. "The rest of life," he said, "is just time to fill in between...
...Jeez, don't you have terrible trouble with people breaking your windows and smearing your walls?' The answer is no- because if somebody gets a notion to do that, they had better watch out. People in the neighborhood protect the plant. It's a source of pride as well as jobs. They feel it is theirs...
...dance partner, he provokes an admiring question ("Did you make that step up yourself?") and a neat reply: "Yeah . . . No. I saw it on television . . . then I made it up." The modification, and the contradiction, were Travolta's invention, and they say a lot about Tony Manero's stubborn pride and restless insecurity...
...Israeli side, the Tel Aviv attack and the assault into south Lebanon have once again stirred both anger and militant pride in the Israelis, quieting critics of the government's grudging handling of the peace negotiations and strengthening the positions of Begin and his hardline Likud coalition colleagues. One result: the prognosis for the talks between Begin and Carter in Washington, never promising, seemed even more bleak...
Just three months stand between Scott Turow and what will probably prove a far greater source of pride: his J.D. degree. With a job to look forward to, and without his former enthusiasm for academics, there is little to hold Turow's interest in the Law School in the meantime. And plainly, Turow is looking forward to working in the U.S. Attorney's office--he says being a prosecutor will "renew that 1L feeling of 'How in God's name am I going to make it through all these commitments?'" Most of all, though, his new job should afford Turow...