Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Americans, who still pride themselves on producing the biggest and the best, made it a day of superlatives: the largest cherry pie (60 sq. ft.), in George, Wash.; the biggest firecracker (a 165-lb. skyrocket), in Vancouver, Wash.; the most mammoth fireworks display (33½ tons), in Washington, D.C.; and the biggest crowd (7 million), in New York City...
...Clemente Pat's main preoccupation has been tending two vegetable gardens on the estate. She takes particular pride in her corn, beans and tomatoes...
Proud Example. As Israelis awakened to the news of the rescue, excitement and pride rippled through the country. Gone was the humiliating feeling of helplessness with which they had lived through most of the week, as it increasingly appeared that the skyjackers would get their way. Clearly exultant was Minister Without Portfolio Gideon Hausner, who declared: "We have again provided the whole world with an example of how terrorism could be resisted and should be resisted." Exclaimed Minister of Tourism Moshe Kol: "We have to do the impossible...
...crucial moment tries to help her adulterous husband by telling her first lie, when he is counting on her to be truthful as usual. And she makes the play's final moments moving as her cheeks course with tears in a combination of sadness, joy, and pride. Tovah Feldshuh is properly sexy as the teenage girl Abigail, who accuses Elizabeth of witchcraft in hopes of getting Proctor for herself...
...Bicentennial measles. It is spreading-literally-from top to bottom, from tricolored wigs to toilet seats, planes and trains to municipal fireplugs, Tiffany diadems to morticians' coffins. An instant industry has sprung up manufacturing Bicentennial gewgaws such as plastic tricornes, birthday buttons, patriotic bikinis and tricolor towels. With pride, affection and occasional humor, from motives ranging from crass commercialism to plain and fancy patriotism, Americans are splashing the land with primary color that, for a change, has nothing to do with elections. Some RWB (red, white and blue) examples...