Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Islands by Argentina is an act that cannot be justified by any reasoning. Nevertheless, where was Britain's concern for self-determination when it took the Falklands from Argentina almost 150 years, ago? Great Britain's current reaction is more a case of sour grapes and wounded pride than any genuine desire to right a terrible wrong. The sun set on the British Empire a long time ago. History has long recognized that fact. The British should also...
...suggest there is no alternative to Harvard's hit-and-miss way of practicing alcohol regulation. In fact, it is the very divisiveness emerging among Harvard's Houses and within some due to the inconsistencies which necessitate a better way. For this, Harvard could benefit from swallowing its pride and looking down Mass Ave toward...
Then, too, both peoples are grossly sentimental, deeply unsophisticated and dangerously stubborn-the English pride being narrow-nosed, the American blustery; but the effect is equally irritating to anyone who deals with them. The English are famous for not adjusting to foreign places, but Americans don't do this either. Both countries are inventive. The English like to demean American know-how, but they are just as dazzled by ingenuity. They simply have an older world to cherish along with the new; thus they make an elaborate point of doing so. Both countries are class-ridden, though...
Reaction among the country's remaining 190,000 whites, who make up less than 3% of the population, ranged from outrage to resignation. "These are insults to our history and blows to our pride," protested a white businessman. "And I'm not sure either whether Karl Marx Street, Harare, is an address that will attract much overseas business...
...entire process. The ability to comprehend, to conceptualize, to organize and reorganize, to manipulate, to adjust-these are all parts of thought. So are the acts of pondering, rationalizing, worrying, brooding, theorizing, contemplating, criticizing. One thinks when one imagines, hopes, loves, doubts, fantasizes, vacillates, regrets. To experience greed, pride, joy, spite, amusement, shame, suspicion, envy, grief-all these require thought; as do the decisions to take command, or umbrage; to feel loyalty or inhibitions; to ponder ethics, self-sacrifice, cowardice, ambition. So vast is the mind's business that even as one makes such a list, its inadequacy...