Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leopard II battle-tank prototype and the Americans' XM-1; if the Leopard won the competition, the U.S. would also accept it as its major armored vehicle for the mid-1980s. The decision was hailed as an important step toward equipment standardization within NATO-until U.S. military pride and industry pressure opposed it. As a compromise, Schlesinger's successor, Donald Rumsfeld, worked out an agreement in principle with the Germans to make both tanks "interoperable." The XM1 would take the 120-mm. smooth-bored gun used in the German tank; the Leopard II would use the engine assembly...
...deepest sense, pride in ancestry or place cannot mitigate the individual's task of coping and making do. In the still-valid American tradition - the reason immigrants came here in the first place - it is not the roots that count so much as the branches and the leaves...
Everyone participated in Southie's St. Patrick's Day parade. The O'Tooles, Flahertys, Kirbys, Comiskeys, Dohertys, Donnellys and Dineens. It was strictly a family-affair; a big block party with all the warmth, neighborhood pride, good humor and openness that one can only find in this last-of-the-big-working-class-ethnic-neighborhoods...
...story is a love story, it refreshingly focuses on his love for his three sons by both marriages (Hart Bochner, Michael-James Wixted, Brad Savage). During a long visit by the boys early in the film, he painfully reaches toward them across gaps of isolation, resentment and pride-his own and sometimes theirs. Later, when the oldest son is shot down while serving as a fighter pilot, Hudson has a bittersweet interlude with the boy's mother (affectingly played by Claire Bloom) and decides to return to the U.S. On the way, he is fatally caught...
Jones shies away from racial talk, offering instead the view that "we're all Americans, all immigrants." He speaks with pride of his own roots-a slave grandfather who bought his freedom and encouraged his children to get the best education possible-but Grambling does not put much emphasis on its black studies program since careers in the field are limited. Jones argues vigorously, however, that predominantly black colleges should not be merged with previously white state universities. Says he: "We understand the problems a young, often poor, black boy or girl faces. Put them in an institution where...