Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hotel de Ville houses some Flemish masterpieces by Van Orly and Janssens, but not enough to fill more than a day, and the overseers emphasize guided tours, discouraging lingerers. There is also a museum of modern art. Many inhabitants of the city consider its pride to be a statue of a young boy urinating on some ducks. It spouts real water. People buy thousands of plastic replicas and bring them home...
...pride of Loxley, Alabama, not hit .321 and led the club in hitting with runners in scoring position, there would no problem. Had he not batted over .300 away from Fenway Park--a feat Red Sox batters rarely accomplish--and played a steady second base (only 12 errors in 106 games), all the talk in camp would be about how much better Remy's knee looks. Had he not slammed 33 doubles and knocked in 45 runs, rapping out 144 hits in his first 449 at bats in the major leagues. Dave Stapleton would be fighting it out with Chico...
...Louis Stofberg, general secretary of the right-wing Herstigte Nasionale Party: "I'd like to see the bastard who can find a drop of colored blood in my family!" Albert Tertius Myburgh, Afrikaner editor of the national Sunday Times, took a positive view, describing the "swelling of African pride" he felt at the racial revelation...
...have asked her, and very surprisingly she said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these days. I think Charles is very lucky to have...
Roberta Maxwell's Mary is an acutely devastating portrait of a prima donna. She is vain, she is cruel, she throws temper tantrums, she is self-pitying, she is totally selfabsorbed. Unthroned, she is crowned in the dazzling radiance of her pride. Maxwell is in the top rank of U.S. actresses, and she proves it again in this kaleidoscopic performance...