Word: prided
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...alive long before the outbreak of the civil war. Dating back to the 1940s and the creation of a Moslem state from the eastern and western wings of British India, the dream had grown under the systematic exploitation of the eastern region by the West. Bengali chauvinism and pride in a distinct cultural heritage sharpened the hostility, especially when the West Pakistani declared Urdu--a Western dialect--the country's official language. East Bengal saw its natural resources, jute and burlap, siphoned off to the factories of West Pakistan, and its educated population largely blocked from the nation's industrial...
...last week, guests at the President's table, including F.D.R.'s son Jimmy, ate off china from the Roosevelt years. In a deft tribute, Reagan recalled his first glimpse of F.D.R. "It was 1936, a campaign parade in Des Moines, Iowa. What a wave of affection and pride swept through the crowd." Reagan obliquely compared Roosevelt with himself; he praised the American ability to "sense when things have gone too far, when the time has come to make fundamental changes. Franklin Roosevelt was that kind of a person too." The President then led a toast...
Part of the making of a classic is high stakes. Part is tradition. Part, and in this case the primary part, has to be the familiarity of an anticipated annual rendezvous and the pride of being locked with a worthy opponent into something bigger than either...
Leonard also criticized gavel-to-gavel coverage of conventions, which CBS decided last year to discontinue: "History, time, and pride in exercising our ability as reporters resulted many years ago in the enormous coverage that we give the conventions. The conventions as a political instrumentality have changed over the years, but we have not caught up with that change... We still continue to make an effort at the conventions that I do not believe is warranted, and I don't think that the public, which kind of turns its back on it, feels it's warranted either...
...Warm Valley Bed . .. narrow and soft and shaped like a trough, gently urging its occupants toward the middle: the bed of commitment." There is a hesitant manifesto titled "Shy Rights: Why Not Pretty Soon?" by a militant shy who confesses that "while we don't have a Shy Pride Week, we do have many private moments when we keep our thoughts to ourselves, such as 'Shy is nice,' 'Walk short,' 'Be proud-shut up' and 'Shy is beautiful, for the most part...