Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will at least have the opportunity to do so, however, in a non-Ivy contest, where pride counts more than victory...
There is joy behind the bitching and cursing, a kind of pride that comes from enduring shared hardships. Only someone who's been through it and then must sit on the sidelines, unable to play, can fully realize this...
...BEST SPORTS MOVIE I ever saw was Pride of the Yankees, the 1942 tribute to Lou Gehrig featuring Gary Cooper as the ill-fated Yankee great. It was hokey and soapy, almost completely unrelated to the realities of major league sports, but it was still a lot of fun. That, in the long run, has to be the main criterion for judging sports movies. With a very few exceptions, these films don't aim at bringing any important theme to an audience. In an era of incredibly mindless films, sports movies remain in the fore of anti-intellectualism. The people...
Covetousness, for those who don't sin or don't keep count, is the second deadly sin. Pride is the first, and lust is No. 3, though not necessarily in order of popularity. In Lawrence Sanders' new novel, these and most of the other numbered transgressions come into play as someone murders Painter Victor Maitland at his studio in Lower Manhattan...
...manhunt over, police felt pride tinged with a few regrets, at this handling of one of their toughest challenges. Once again they had discovered that terrified witnesses rarely provide reliable descriptions. The series of sketches drawn by police artists from such fragmentary impressions turned out to be off the mark -actually hindering police work by inviting people to name suspects bearing likenesses to the errant drawings, but not to the murderer...