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Word: prided (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...happen, as witness the dizzying twists and jolting turns of the Democratic primary season. Certainly three months ago, hardly anyone thought the Democratic vice-presidential nominee would be a woman named Geraldine Ferraro. But it will take something almost as unexpected to prevent the tears of Democratic joy and pride that flowed last week in San Francisco from turning into tears of a very different sort come November...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Now for the Real Fight | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...nomination turned tired old phrases into literal statements. For women who had pressed so long against a barrier, there was indeed an open door. For talent long wasted by exclusion, there was at last inclusion. But much of the community of emotion in Moscone Center eluded language. Pride? Joy? Incredulity? No word quite defined the feeling that was at the heart: the knowledge that the struggle had been so hard, so long, for so many...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Smiles, Tears and Goose Bumps | 7/30/1984 | See Source »

...Cameroon was in the Junior National Finals. In Spain we were present, and we are here today. This is a source of great national pride in Cameroon," says team director Raymon Fobette...

Author: By John F. Baughman, | Title: From Four Continents | 7/27/1984 | See Source »

...declared that the Virgin birth and the Resurrection might be more symbolic than literal, and that a person could be a good Christian even while doubting the divinity of Jesus. Immediately, traditionalists mounted a counterattack. The conservative Church of England Newspaper condemned Jenkins as a man "who takes pride in peddling dangerous and false heresy." A petition opposing the appointment was signed by 12,500 Anglicans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain: A Bolt from the Heavens | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

...trusted cooks who were allowed to invite their grandchildren to spend their holidays in the backyard...a shifting population of pretty young housemaids whose long red nails and pertness not only asserted the indignity of being undiscovered or out-of-work fashion models but kept hoisted a cocky guerrilla pride against servitude to whites: there are many forms of resistance not recognized in orthodox revolutionary strategy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Tales of Privacy and Politics | 7/23/1984 | See Source »

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