Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known and had bigger power bases. He also destroyed forever the hopes of Alabama's George Wallace of rising to national power?a possibility already dimmed by the bullet of a would-be assassin. By showing that a nonracist Southerner could win a major party nomination, Carter gave new pride to his region and went far to heal ancient wounds...
...towns within Israel that they might expect to visit some day but certainly not to liberate. Actually, what the Palestinians want most of all is the sense of national identity that would arise from statehood. Just as many Jews in the Diaspora were given a new sense of pride and hope by the creation of Israel; so also would the Palestinian refugees escape from the tarnish of being second-class citizens of nowhere if a state of their own were founded...
...been expunged from the official language. Yet when Khrushchev celebrated his own 70th birthday in 1964, it was Brezhnev who led the cheering: "Dear Nikita Sergeyevich, your marvelous deeds have won you the love of all our party, the whole Soviet people. This fills our hearts with joy and pride in you." Six months later. Khrushchev was unceremoniously pitched out of office, and Brezhnev took over...
Where is our pride? We export technology. Why can't we import ways to make streets safe? We spend billions to protect ourselves from the Russians, but it is the street gangs in America who frighten me. It's law-and-order and freedom from fear that allow a nation to survive, and I say no money for New York and other cities until they restore safety to the streets. I'm mad, sick at heart and disgusted with weak Government officials...
Shee-Rack! Climaxing a day-long orgy of pride and peroration, Chirac stood atop an immense podium, his arms outstretched in the large V popularized by De Gaulle. "Let us restore hope to our country!" he shouted to the throng. Like tiny flashes of lightning, the reflections of strobe lights glittered on his large glasses while his followers cried over and over, "Shee-rack! Shee-rack...