Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...groceries; others consider food stamps beneath their dignity. "I don't mind welfare benefits from the union," says a Masontown miner, though no strikers have received any benefits from the depleted funds. "But welfare from Uncle Sam is out. A lot of us would rather keep our pride and go a little hungry. That's the way we were brought up, proud people in a dirty...
...over Nosenko's credibility. Disinclined to believe him, the CIA drew up 44 questions that it wanted the FBI, which was debriefing Nosenko, to ask him. The FBI'S J. Edgar Hoover refused to permit such questioning. The reason, according to Epstein, was that Hoover took pride in the information he was getting from another alleged KGB defector, called Fedora. Fedora had verified some portions of Nosenko's story-and if Nosenko had been shown to be a false defector, that would have meant that Hoover's source too was a KGB-planted double agent. Eventually...
Look for surprise starter Mark Rodriguez in nets for Yale and freshman ice idol Paul Castraberti to do most of the Eli's scoring. But most of all, look for some kinda battle between two teams, one suddenly proud, the other searching for its pride...
Japanese workers derive great satisfaction from their work, Reischauer said--"Japanese companies often don't need quality control because workers take such pride in their work that they provide the best quality control in the world...
Rookie Forward Cedric ("Cornbread") Maxwell had a jolting comeuppance when he joined Boston with high expectations. Says he: "Oh, man, 'Celtic pride.' I've been hearing about Celtic pride from the day I got drafted. People asking me what happened to Celtic pride. I don't know what happened to it, because I don't know what it looks like...