Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...everywhere. Each time one of their human opponents opens a door or rounds a corner, you know terrible trouble is about to ensue. Anytime someone confidently announces what looks to be a foolproof plan to exterminate the aliens, you can be equally sure that this is another example of pride going before a slimy fall. Add to this plenty of snappy dialogue, gloriously staged combat sequences, imaginative hardware and special effects, the assured direction of James Cameron, and you have the elements that should add up to this summer's inescapable movie...
Graham spoke three times but soft-pedaled his presence in favor of other speakers. He took quiet pride in the spiritual strength of his young colleagues. With schooling of only six years on average, "they aren't educated," he said, "but they know the Bible." And they will ensure that evangelism remains vigorous. Their average age is 31, and many will be toiling in distant places long after Graham is gone...
While farmers fret about how to store the huge harvest, much tougher questions will loom as unavoidably as tarpaulin-covered mountains of wheat. The unsentimental truth is that America's farm industry, once a source of pride and power, has become an economic burden. Because so many other countries have improved their agricultural output, maintaining America's vast farming capacity is now a costly exercise in excess. During fiscal 1986 the expense to taxpayers for supporting farm programs will reach, according to the Government's estimates, $24 billion -- a 36% increase over last year. As exports shrivel and imports increase...
...pivotal roles, recasting reduces the pain and power of the play. Michael Siberry, blond and robust, plays Nicholas as one of nature's optimists, buoyant with pride and hope. The dark, hollowed look and manner of the original Nicholas, Roger Rees, better suggested the character's boundless disillusionment. As Nicholas' battered Dotheboys friend Smike, David Threlfall was recognizably a victim of cerebral palsy, lame and inarticulate, whose great soul struggled to overcome his infirmities. His successor, John Lynch, skitters and jibbers in an otherworldly fashion that never resembles any sympathy-evoking affliction...
...that 19-year stretch so that a new generation could face its own problems unencumbered. That pay- as-you-go principle might also be an effective restraint on the "dog of war," reasoned Jefferson, who had seen the European potentates suffocate their subjects with debt from wars of pride and whim...