Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...visited the grave of an old Harvard classmate. He had come to the tomb of a man who had shown no interest for politics while in college--who played court jester at football games, somersaulting and prancing around the sidelines, who trumpeted school spirit, staked more than his pride on gaining acceptance to one of Harvard's elite social clubs, and who lay buried inside the Kremlin wall--a martyr to the Russian revolution...
...Harvard lost three of the next four races by a combined total of three-tenths of a second. Sophomore Debbie Zimic could not hold her lead over Brown's Valerie Poirier in the 100 individual medley, freshman Diane Smith lost the 50 backstroke by inches to Lori Pride, and sophomore Susan Kim was inched out by Peggy Tormey in the 50 breaststroke...
Hutton, the only actor other than Scott who stands out amid this mess of cliches and salutes, portrays a potentially interesting character who does ridiculous things. In Moreland there is an opportunity to explore difficult dilemmas such as how to maintain military pride without sacrificing individuality and humanity. But the makers of Taps haven't decided themselves what the answers are, or if any exist at all. Robot-like, Moreland plods on with his doomed crusade, and when the smoke clears, it's not at all clear who's to blame for this farcical shoot'em up: Bache...
...again in Solidarity?prompted Karl Marx to call Poland the "thermometer of the intensity and vitality of all revolutions since 1789." Successive occupations and uprisings, moreover, gave Poles a deep-rooted mistrust of foreign-imposed governments and sharpened their skills at organizing broad-based conspiracies. It also increased their pride in the past. Many of Solidarity's buttons show the Polish eagle adorned with the crown that was banned by the Communists...
...whereas it took five Warsaw Pact armies to end the Prague Spring, the Polish August was frozen by the pride of the nation, by the sons and brothers of Solidarity members. The Polish army was the last official institution with any popular trust. That is finished now. Even the cowed population of Warsaw openly shows its hatred. Obscene gestures are made at passing armored columns. The Poles have taken the acronym of the ruling military council WRON, and added an A to produce WRONA, crow in Polish. "Crow" was what Poles called the Gestapo during the Nazi occupation, after...