Word: prided
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...players are faster, stronger and bushier than ever-New York is a notable exception now that George Steinbrenner has decreed short hair in order to instill "Yankee pride" in his players-but they still fit into the diamond in such a way as to generate the same slow magnetism of yore. Football fans pay up to $18 a seat for thrills, chills, shocks and jolts. Baseball fans welcome thrills, too; last year's rousing World Series remains a vivid memory. But for their money they just ask for flavor. It won't be easy for the sport...
Berrigan expresses his great pride in the part played by Jesuit priests in the anti-war movement during the sixties. He predicts that the Jesuit order will again take on a more activist role in America "within the next serveral years...
...could be explained how a group of people could, out of motives that were to them of the noblest quality, do things that were sometimes good and often bad. It also explains why it took four generations for the deeper questions to sink through the thick layers of pride and business and charity...
...make concessions for a friend. I mean, for example, that I believe Moe would go further as a gesture of personal friendship to you than he ever would as the result of negotiating pressure brought by me. You see, if I try to bargain Moe into a deal, his pride asserts itself and he says 'Never!' Whereas as a favor and gesture of personal friendship to you ... Moe might easily do for you what he would not do for me. Anyhow, please try. Howard...
...have counted myself among the "Nixon-haters," "the anti-Nixon crowd," and the "nattering nabobs of negativism," and even joined in the "Nixon death watch" during the hot, intense final days of the Nixon regime in the summer of 1974. After all, I considered it a source of pride and self-esteem to fight the man who fought the Vietnamese with such abandon...