Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...marvelous, sleazy sailor's town," he says. This time around, Demarest spent four days talking with shoppers, tourists and shopkeepers in and around Harborplace. His conclusion: "Baltimore has gone from being a kind of national joke to a major tourist attraction, a city that can rightfully take pride in itself. The spirit of cooperation is almost unparalleled in America. Baltimore gives hope to all of us who believe that our destiny lies in our cities...
Guided by his parents and his own instincts, a boy becomes a Scout because he senses that it will help him to grow up. He does not beat his chest with pride. But he cheers loudly whenever his troop or his home state is mentioned over the p.a. system. He is glad to belong to something outside his family, and his family is glad too, spending about $485 to send him here...
Reagan's belief in what he is doing is real, and that faith spread to his people, says Counsellor Edwin Meese. Now, says Staff Director David Gergen, that belief has been forged into pride, as the Administration has succeeded with its initiatives. The process has not been smooth or faultless by a long shot. The Communist threat to El Salvador was overstated. The idea of cutting back Social Security benefits was premature and ill-considered. The immigration program consumed five Cabinet meetings with debate and bickering. But even skeptical aides see that Reagan never turned away from his demands...
...smart, tough, successful and full of pride. He is, in his early 30s, a member of a New York police elite. The Special Investigating Unit has amassed an impressive record of convictions in major crimes-drug busts, police and other governmental corruption. He is, in the words of an admiring judge, one of the city's princes...
...Cardinal Sins is about as good a novel as it is a pun. The lives of its four leading characters, Greeley explains in a foreword, are shaded by one or more of the traditional seven cardinal sins (pride, covetousness, lust, anger, gluttony, envy and sloth). Greeley follows Patrick Donahue, his friend Kevin Brennan, and the two women in their lives, Ellen Foley and Maureen Cunningham, from a pre-seminary adolescent summer to the slopes of middle age. As a priest, Kevin is a controversial writer and social scientist who bears an unflattering resemblance to the author. Donahue, clearly more fictional...