Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recruiting athletes than they do for recruiting introverted geeks (who after all appear to be the only identifiable group to vociferate sullenly towards the mental capacity or treatment of Harvard athletes when they are given a podium), we might conclude that alumni have more admiration for--and take greater pride in Harvard's athletes than they do in Harvard's introverted "strictly academic students...
Since November, Mr. Reagan has been engaged in a tug-of-war with political adversaries and determined truth-seekers. Should the president now let go of his end, the rope will go slack, and his antagonists will land in a heap. What Mr. Reagan forfeits in false pride he would gain in popular sympathy...
...evocations of the low-biz Songstresses Vicki Eydie and Dolores DeLago. Midler's most powerful number, Stay with Me (best heard on the sound-track album of her 1980 concert film, Divine Madness), is the plea of a woman to her departing lover. Her mood is desperate; her sexual pride has been flayed raw. She can only beg and scream. Bette scorches the soul with this one. In six minutes she wrings out herself and the song, and mops up the audience as well. Her cover versions of all these songs make the originals sound like demo tapes...
...guys who played video games knew who my roommate and I were, because we were the only girls ever in the Union gameroom," Tewes says. "I remember we quit playing Ms. PacMan even though we were awesome because it was a 'girl game.' It became a real matter of pride...
...dismiss the upsurge of Teutonic racism, citing the restraining effect of 40 years of national guilt. They should not. Germans have suffered for their fathers, and there is no reason to believe that Germany will again accept violent dictatorship; yet in trying to preserve its pride, Germany is retreating from the tradition of tolerance that it has tried to establish during the last 40 years...