Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the appointment of his Oxford-educated daughter Lyudmila Zhivkova as head of the committee for culture in 1975, Zhivkov sought to bolster national identity and pride, reportedly to the displeasure of the Kremlin. It was Lyudmila, for instance, who was the guiding force behind the 1981 celebrations of the 1,300th anniversary of the founding of the Bulgarian state. Halfway through the anniversary year, however, Lyudmila died at age 38 of a brain hemorrhage. Since her death, no one else has emerged as a staunch crusader for Bulgarian nationalism...
...they should also spark praise. The report represents a victory for democracy. There are few countries in the world, and certainly no Arab ones, that would have initiated such painstaking procedures. Indeed, the Lebanese Christians--those directly responsible--promptly forgot everything. So, despite all the tension, Israelis can take pride and solace in having a system that works...
...Russian-flavored, evoking the Brothers Karamazov singing capitalist work hymns. The music is effective and lively, the repeated lyrics "I've got a quite important job with many things to do my stenographer is pretty and my wallpaper is new" come across with just the right amount of subdued pride to make "work song" an appropriate response to employed America. The spirit of the song is strong, but the voices are convincingly flat, making the music echo with the cadences of American experience...
Bernal asked the question racing through every Crimson swimmer's mind last night: "What's on the line?" He and the squad knew the answer "A little pride, nothing more," THE NOTEBOOK: Several times throughout the meet, the lone voice of an excited spectator could be heard saying. "Get those Harvard guys!" The voice belonged to the father of B. U. 's Brad and Bren Howe--who both had considered attending Harvard but chose to accept B. U. 's scholarship offers Bren scored a first in the 200 back while his brother Brad finished third in the 500 free...
...father's failure in a grandiose farming and ranching scheme Earlier, the Johnson had behaved as if they were a cut above the hardscrabble-farmer neighbors--his mother was a college graduate and his father a popular, respected state legislator, both descended from prominent pioneer stock, and their pride fired his ambition. But after Sam Ealy Johnson's fall. Johnson City and Blanco County struck back against their once-haughty denizens, systematically snubbing the Johnsons over a period of years. Humiliation reached a painful peak when Lyndon's high-school romance was thwarted by an angry father distrustful...