Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...session, a short period is allowed for delegates to sound off. (AIP-members pride themselves on being democratic, although many will not use the word because "the Founding Fathers did not.") Michael Jacobs, a delegate from Vermont, objects to the racial overtones of Colonel Warnock's remarks and notes that such overtones will harm the party's efforts to broaden its base. "How many niggers you got in Vermont?" a man shouts out. I peer over at the only black face in the room--that of a young security guard. He remains impassive. A burly, slightly drunk Ohioan goes...
Free to think of itself in a different light, the South has replaced self-righteous demagoguery with genuine pride. The South has always been proud of its ways despite, perhaps even because of, the derision it suffered for its shortcomings. But the new Southern pride is based on the steady progress the region has made toward overcoming its problems while retaining its special identity...
...South Boston High, he still knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts...
...South Boston High, he still knows where that teacher comes from and how she probably fits into the city's network of cronyism and nepotism, how her mother may hold a feather-bedded job in the School Department downtown, her husband on the Boston police force may swallow his pride and true opinions to protect black children, and how her brother-in-law might be assuring audiences in South Boston that he will never let those people take over our little city as he runs for the ninth congressional district seat (which, by an ironic districting fluke, contains parts...
...Trinity, Uris (T last week) 2-Dolores, Susann (2) 3-Touch Not the Cat, Stewart (4) 4-The Lonely Lady, Robbins (3) 5-The Deep, Benchley(5) 6-Ordinary People, Guest (7) 7-Crowned Heads, Tryon (6) 8-A God Against the Gods, Drury (TO) 9-The Pride of the Peacock, Holt 10-A Stranger in the Mirror,Sheldon...