Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from Cornell University, he was paid $20 a week by S.D.S. to organize radical antiwar movements on campuses up and down the East Coast. "I was told they had 10,000 pages on me at the FBI," he says now, no doubt hyperbolically, but with a certain tinge of pride. "My career ten years ago was the perfect case of the outside agitator." In December 1969, no longer with S.D.S., he and three fellow Cornell radicals headed for Seattle, apparently drawn by the sheer glamour of the wild West. "We were East Coast boys who related very heavily to cowboys...
...forestalling an external attack. Moreover, the animosities aroused among Palestinians by the settlements would seem to outweigh whatever minor security advantages they provide. If anything, the presence of the settlements has merely strengthened Palestinian resistance. Observes Columbia University Professor Edward Said, a noted Palestinian, with a touch of pride: "Throughout the occupation, and with all the intimidation and temptations the Israelis have tried, they have been unable to produce a class of collaborators among our people. We do not produce quislings...
...Palestinians are seen by other Arabs with a combination of fear, suspicion, guilt and pride," says Sociologist Sari Nasir of Amman University. The Palestinians return these ambivalent feelings. In the "Black September of 1970," Arafat's guerrillas, fearing that Jordan was usurping their power, turned against King Hussein's troops, lost a bloody ten-day battle, and were forced to move their base of operations from Jordan to Lebanon. Beginning in 1975, they took an active role in the Lebanese civil war. The Syrians first intervened against them, not wanting the Palestinians and the Lebanese leftists to gain...
...have a strong sense of gay pride (i.e. self-respect). For me, being gay is joyful, adventurous, honest, emotional, and--yes Anita--natural. But I can never forget how I used to feel. Every day I see the hatred which so many gay students feel for themselves, and every day I encounter the indifference and hostility which allows this hatred to flourish...
...really emphasized the human factor. Her people take real pride in their work; they've educated the rest of the campus," Susan D. Wiltshire, coordinator of the discussions, said yesterday...