Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most telling and most personal. Green Bay (pop. 89,000) is the smallest true N.F.L. city, and the Packers are the property of 1,700 Wisconsin stockholders who kept the team from failing in the 1950s by buying stock at $25 a share. Mayor Samuel Halloin notes with pride and pain, "This is not a situation where a few wealthy individuals own the team." For every game canceled in Green Bay (four are scheduled there, four in Milwaukee), Mayor Halloin estimates that local businesses will lose $2 million...
...Raising tuition, especially above the highest undergraduate level charged in this area, tied secondarily to a major announcement of a program to improve quality at this growing world university, would soon bring pride to the entire university community," the consultant's report said...
...many outstanding abilities, but no one so great as his oratorical skill and spiritual power. Though his speeches and demons before thousands of Blacks he was able to bring about a psychological revolution which dwarfed any of his other achievements. He was able to fill his people with the pride and courage to first defy, then change a society that demeaned and degraded them. As a Black janitor said after the completion of the Montgomery bus boycott, "We got our heads up now and we won't ever bow down again no sir except before...
...suitably disdainful of our rivals, and of rah-rah spirit in general, when a dozen Ken and Barbie Dolls with "H's" on their chests are yipping, "Let's get ROWDEE?" Do we want to compete with the UMass color guard and baton twirlerettes? Doesn't anyone have any pride in final club snobbery anymore? In the Hahvahd sneer? In smoke-filled coffee houses...
...work knee-deep in water, the heat causes a great deal of fatigue. "The steam seems to drain the energy right out of you sometimes," he says Nevertheless. White--who receives no extra salary for spending his days underground--views his work matter-of-factly and points with pride to the money he and his co-workers save the University by repairing steam leaks. Of his years in the tunnels. White reports nothing stranger than a cat that once found its way underground. "It scared the hell out of me," he recalls...