Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shattered Pride. Meanwhile, the army was assigned the unpleasant task of maintaining the peace. The soldiers, whose pride had been shattered by the 1971 defeat, once again found themselves taunted and reviled by demonstrators for supporting an unpopular government. "Zia, Zia, be-hiya [Zia, Zia, shameless]!" became a popular slogan against the army leader. Four brigadiers and several dozen field-grade officers in Lahore resigned rather than follow orders to fire on unruly mobs...
...with friends for drinks and a favorite diversion, girl watching. That evening, Marilynn Levy had gone to King Solomon's Mines to celebrate her 23rd birthday with a high school chum. Marilynn was, as she puts it, a nice Jewish girl from North Minneapolis, Morrie Levy's pride and joy. Raised in a conservative family, she had led a sheltered-almost a programmed-life. "I never went out with anyone whom my family didn't know. I was raised as a good Jewish girl to get married, raise children, clean the house and take care...
With profound pride Spanish newspapers hailed the election as a "triumph of moderation" and praised the orderly way in which it was conducted. At week's end, after most of the votes were finally tallied, a Madrid intellectual expressed the emotions of his countrymen. "There is," he said, "deep down, a happiness about this transition, about the possibility of taking political consensus in hand. Now our people have got to decide to live together and to disagree in a civilized...
...Africa, one finds it hard to avoid the familiar but stunning fact that no advanced civilization, no written language ever existed south of the Sahara. One contemplates the mysterious ruins of Zimbabwe, from which black nationalists have taken the new name for Rhodesia, and which are pointed to with pride as a remnant of a great African past. No one is sure who built this temple city, probably in the last half of the 15th century, but one is struck by the fact that, for all its grandeur, it was erected stone by stone, without mortar, with the most primitive...
...proudly aware of it. The trumpets that herald curtain time at the Festival Theater sound a fanfare of brassy assurance, and the plays follow each other across the stage like a regal pageant. Canada built and has sustained a distinctive national theater, and that is fit cause for pride. Herewith, a sample of this summer's offerings...