Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...resurfacing--a cleverly constructed 65-foot model that captures all the detail but somehow doesn't make the ship appear as looming as it did in real life. Jameson should have spent a few minutes exploring the ship, poking his camera into the staterooms and galleries that were the pride of the White Star Line when the ship set sail from Southhampton...
...duet with Hee-Haw's Misty Rowe as Daisy Mae, off-Broadway Joe just laughed along with the twittering crowd and won a round of sympathetic applause. "Singing is a new experience, and there's lots of room for improvement," he admitted later. But shucks, said the pride of Dogpatch, "the people surely liked the show...
...conqueror in the Olympic Games or the crier that proclaims who are the conquerors?" A navy man, Themistocles saw no honor in being out of things. He would not have understood the U.S. role of spectator to this year's Olympic Games, or how a country whose national pride has so often been hoisted in those Games could settle for the bleachers...
Right now, the U.S. feels none of that particular sort of pride. Instead many Americans, including those who would have been competing in Moscow, are wondering if what they are feeling is any sort of pride at all or merely the discomfort of having taken a difficult moral position that is beginning to feel a bit tight at the neck. After all, aren't those young men and women just playing games over there? Is the U.S. a spoilsport...
Already a prodigious classics scholar at 18, he spent his days emendating the Latin poet Propertius instead of reading the syllabus. When he failed his final exams, the undergraduate's pride was crushed. At home, his father had run through the modest family fortune, and for a drab and agonizing decade Housman clerked in the London Patent Office...