Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...institution like Harvard, where the freedom of the individual is so prized and fought for, at an institution whose members are chosen for and take pride in their uniqueness, how could such a grossly selfish infringement of others' rights be seriously considered? Is our own liberty so inviolate that we cannot accomodate in any way, no matter how trivial, to allow for the liberties of others? Can we be so engrossed in the perusal of our own thing that we not only do neglect, but feel it is our right to neglect, the things of others...
...This has put him in a two-way fight with ABC's Arledge: several times this summer ABC News topped NBC in the ratings, a trend that will take time to reverse. Salant sounds like a football coach after a bad loss: "NBC has got to get its pride back. I can't stand this 'you win some, you lose some' attitude." Salant has hired Bill Small, a top CBS executive, to shake up NBC News. "They say morale's bad, wondering what kind of changes are coming here," says Salant. "They ought...
Early in the preseason, Joe Restic told me this year's football team was a group with real spirit--a togetherness and pride that would be good for at, least a few extra points...
...oaken voice of Walter Cronkite echoes in the memory of America's entry into the competition. There were resonant suspense at lift-offs and tremolos of pride at splashdowns: America still had the right stuff, Wolfe's buzz word for the indefinable attributes of the astronauts. His long awaited book about test pilots and the Mercury flights recalls those years through the eyes and nerve endings of the first astronauts, their wives and even the conditioned chimpanzees who rode prototype capsules downrange from Cape Canaveral: The chimp's &"heart rate shot up as he strained against...
Walsh can run down a laundry list of pro-condo arguments. "It gives people interest in the city as taxpayers, it increases the amount of revenue to the city, it improves the property, and last but not at all least, it lets everyone experience the pride of ownership which is a basic American right," Walsh says. "Condos open new gates for people coming in, and since so many old tenants buy them, the price has to be damn right...