Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...While we can take justifiable pride in what our schools and colleges have historically accomplished and contributed to the United States and the well-being of its people, the educational foundations of our society are presently being croded by a rising tide of mediocrity that threatens our very future as a nation and a people. What was unimaginable a generation ago has begun to occur-others are matching and surpassing our educational attainments...
...aspects of Boston's flourishing rock industry. Useful information was dispersed, and--more important--people met and talked. "Much of the value of an event like this is the immediate contacts you make," Mike Dreese, Boston Rock's publisher stressed. And, of course, there was the rallying of hometown pride...
...more efficient--be dispensed with the cable altogether. The turgid rhetoric of state propaganda is lampooned in the workers' hypocritical socialist pledges, but the humor does not eclipse more sinister themes: "I like the fact that my compatriots have such vacant and protruding eyes. They fill me with virtuous pride...They harbour no thought--but what power...
...audience's heckling was not a planned part of the protest, but stemmed from the emotional pride of the anti-PLO students. The audience should have ideally exercised more self-control; Rachmun's speech was so filed with historical revision that it became self-in-criminating. Nonetheless, the highly charged situation inside Ames Courtroom, Rachmun's string of invidious remarks and the jeering and shouting of Rachmun's supporters fueled the disruptions. Under normal circumstances, to protest without listening to the other side is close-minded; but, to listen to inflammatory and blatantly false statements without an emotional response would...
...agency philosophers put it-is that Ô de Lancôme is "a Saturday-afternoon fragrance." The woman who wears it is fresh and casual, and, although breathtakingly lovely, not obviously paired with a lover. Such a wild flower, as LaMicela explains with a poet's shy pride, might ride her bicycle alone down a country road some misty afternoon. She might glide round a bend, only to find the road blocked by a herd of cows. The cowherd, struck by her beauty, might shoo his beasts away, and she, touched by his courtesy, might hand him a flower...