Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...report card for the spring semester of his freshman year. For "staying close to the people," he was given a 93% rating by those who expressed an opinion; for "providing moral leadership," 88%; for improving relations with the nation's friends and allies, 83%; for restoring Americans' pride in themselves, 80% (see chart page...
...President saw the speech as an opportunity to help restore America's pride, so severely tested by Viet Nam and Watergate. To do so, he reminded Americans of their virtues and strengths, declaring that they are drawn together by "a belief in human freedom," and that "we want the world to know that our nation stands for more than financial prosperity." Said he: "I believe we can have a foreign policy that is democratic, that is based on our fundamental values and that uses power and influence for humane purposes...
...administration that have always believed that teaching should not be considered nearly as important as scholarly ability in tenure decisions. The task force was negligent in not recommending any substantive proposals for improving Harvard's teaching. But the negligence was not coincidence; Harvard faculty members, perhaps out of pride, have always resisted attempts by anyone to tell them how to teach. No task force could change that truculence...
...those other big law firms, and anyone of them must be dying for an affirmative action special--a bright Chicano who doesn't talk like a Chicano, who in fact talks like Skiddy von Stade with a high-school Spanish accent. Hell, he figured, we're talking money and pride and no more having to work in the fields, no more of his parents having to work in the fields, no more dust and sweat and callouses for a couple of bukcs a day. By the time he was a sophomore, Paco knew he was gong...
...evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what he sees is still and settled for good. He has the pride of the eye. Turgenev is also exact but without that decisive pride: what he sees is already changing." A country daybreak, for example, with "torrents of hot sunlight, crimson at first and later brilliantly red, brilliantly golden. Everything began quivering into life, awakening, singing, resounding, chattering...