Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Every year, according to the U.S. Justice Department, the Philadelphia police shoot an average of 75 people, which contributes heavily to the force's image as one of the toughest in the nation. This reputation is a source of pride to Mayor Frank Rizzo, who was a cop for 28 years. On a visit to Italy in 1977, he declared that the best way to deal with criminals is "spacco il capo," which can be loosely translated as "break heads...
...theory that Australians ought to take more pride in their country, a government and private-industry group early this month launched a $4.2 million campaign that is supposed to whip Aussies into a chauvinistic frenzy. Bumper stickers and ballpoint pens bearing the slogan LET'S ADVANCE AUSTRALIA are being distributed, and the air waves will soon be flooded with television commercials citing assorted contributions that Australians have made to world progress, such as the invention of a sugar cane harvesting machine. A theme song composed by a Melbourne advertising executive exhorts citizens...
...metropolis has lately begun to sound like one of those boosteristic burgs that Sinclair Lewis used to deride. There was a day when New York City was so smug, haughty and complacent about its firstness that Author Irvin Cobb thought the place possessed "absolutely not a trace of local pride." Yet in the 1970s, the Big Apple, as the city now cutely calls itself, has been larding the air waves so much with a treacly, self-addressed valentine of a song ("I love New Yorrrrrrrrrrk!") that even a tone-deaf statistician might wonder how all the fleeing industries and corporate...
...nature, to be sure, the voice of local pride always tends to reek of too much protest. And professional sloganeering is only the froth on the sea of real, continuing chauvinism. The parochial boast occurs everywhere, and its inspiration can be anything: a product, a geographical feature, the weather (good or bad), even notoriety. Many a place, in the Dodge City tradition, has nurtured its morale on a reputation for meanness: Harlan County, Ky., is famous for little else. Arizona hymns its dry air; Louisiana often builds a brag on its murderous humidity. Amarillo, Texas, brags about its yellow dust...
...depicting Fort Worth as the sticks. South Dakotans often pretend to believe that North Dakotans are an alien race, and northern Californians regard the state's southerly part as a land of incurable kooks. Chronic twitting, in fact, may be taken as a sure sign that provincial pride is robust...