Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moral passion and drama of the early civil rights struggle was one of the most important reasons for the group's success. Less traditionally Christian than King and his followers, SNCC spawned an emotional, windy pride and esprit that made up for the $10 a week wages and the dangers that went with trying to organize as entrenched an area as Amite County, Mississippi. They were "action-oriented," possessed of a "revolutionary elan," filled with courage and passion. Carson quotes a Black Georgia woman who lost her job when she let SNCC workers stay in her house...
...when love of one's country is running high, I question how patriotic or American it is to be supplying $10 million worth of aid to a government like El Salvador's, which does not have the support of its own people [Feb. 2]. As Americans we pride ourselves on helping the poor and the oppressed. Nevertheless, American dollars are being used against the poor and the oppressed in El Salvador. Washington insists on sending military aid and American technicians to help the Duarte regime. Isn't this how our involvement in Viet Nam began...
Last week, however, General Motors put aside its pride and policy and began offering discounts. Ford, which last week declared a loss of $1.5 billion in 1980, a record for a U.S. corporation, followed within an hour. The two companies announced that they would make cash rebates from $500 to nearly...
Moral Majority Leader Jerry Falwell notes with righteous pride that among the very first texts ever to come off a printing press was the Holy Bible. Sometimes he must wish the whole process had stopped right there. Falwell learned two weeks ago that interviews he had granted to two freelance writers were about to be published in the March issue of the girlie magazine Penthouse. Aghast at being tucked between the same covers as those unclad Jezebels, Falwell tried to block distribution of the magazine last week with a court injunction. When that failed, he filed a $10 million lawsuit...
This weekend students from Harvard and the hundreds of other colleges in New England migrate north and converge on Hanover, N.H., for the Big Green's pride and joy, the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival. The women's hockey team beat the crowds and the Big Green, 2-0, last night in Hanover for its fourth consecutive Ivy League victory...