Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bank doubtless will survive. The Comptroller judged C & S to be "well-capitalized and sound." Meanwhile, Kattel, like Lance, has been deluged by job offers. As Poet Stephen Vincent Benet wrote about one of Georgia's founding families in John Brown's Body, there is a "melancholy pride/ In never choosing the winning side...
Stoughton plans consolidation of the hospitals financially, and to deal with the problems of combining clinical operations. He said as director he wants to help physicians and administrators work together with pride, spirit and dedication...
...would like to see a society in which patriotism and pride of race were at the forefront and where African, Asian and other alien cultures were completely rejected. I would like to see real manhood and womanhood once again valued and the current trend to unisex reversed. I would like to see greater emphasis on physical health and fitness, and a much greater organization of the young to stop them drifting into street corners, drugs and degeneration. --Mr. Tyndall, founder and chairman, The National Front...
...Palestine sits in sackcloth and ashes. Over it broods the spell of a curse that has withered its fields and fettered its energies...Renowned Jerusalem itself, the stateliest name in history, has lost its ancient grandeur and has become a pauper village...the wonderful temple which was the pride and glory of Israel is gone...
What drives Ali to think of returning to the ring is pride. If he could somehow beat Spinks and win back his title, he would round out his career and make time stand still?for a little while. The rhyming ex-champion is much like Shakespeare's deposed poet-king Richard, who wrestled with himself and the gathering forces that beat against his life. Muhammad Ali careened across his stage, by turns as hopeful and despairing as his times. He is unlikely to go quietly into the past...