Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...little more than a month after Jimmy's defeat, do townspeople feel the pride of four years ago, the fervent expectancy encouraged in his always fragile Irish tenor at his swearing-in: "That when my time as your President has ended, people might say this about our nation-that we had remembered the words of [the prophet] Micah and renewed our search for humility, mercy and justice ... that we had enabled our people to be proud of their own government once again...
...close observer has seen from the start that Jimmy Carter was from Plains but not of it. His qualities, especially his pride and hunger, propelled him away; and no doubt he .realized long ago that no overachiever is ever thanked at home. Not while he's achieving. Of the registered voters in his home district, 505 voted for Carter, 174 voted for Reagan, Clark or Anderson, and 282 didn't bother to vote...
...like Elvis Presley's. Presley seemed at the end, trapped, defeated and hopeless. Lennon could have gone that way too, could have destroyed himself. But he did something harder. He lived. And, for all the fame and finance, that seemed to be what he took the most pride...
...high case of government corruption in a country that takes pride in its standards of integrity in public office. As a prelude to a formal indictment, Attorney General Yitzhak Zamir last week asked Israel's parliament, the Knesset, to lift the parliamentary immunity of Aharon Abuhatzeira, 42, the Minister of Religious Affairs. That will clear the way for Zamir to press bribery charges against Abuhatzeira; if convicted, he could be sentenced to seven years in prison...
...Bruce's Buckeyes, led by signal-caller Art Schlichter, did not live up to pre-season expectations. Joe Paterno's Nittany Lions (love that nickname) fell to archrival Pittsburgh, spoiling an otherwise superlative schedule against a slew of talented teams. Both sides can salvage up a little bit of pride. Truthfully, they'd rather be in Pasadena and New Orleans. Ohio State 32, Penn State...