Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...giggling grocery clerk would stop him. He tells the story of his accidents and mishaps with a certain pride...
...This is a nation that, with the triumph of the revolution, moralized itself. The people have been able to recuperate national pride, the pride of being a Nicaraguan...
...airline industry, the code of pride and honor that has kept most pilots and air-traffic controllers sober over the years may be seriously eroding. In September 1984 a pilot for a major international airline called 800-COCAINE, a New Jersey-based hot line that provides treatment referral and information. He said that he had been up for three days straight snorting cocaine and that he was scheduled to fly a passenger jet to Europe that night. He was feeling exhausted and paranoid, he confided, but was sure he could stay awake and alert if he just kept taking drugs...
That mix is something Andre and his wife Simone cherish as well, and they try to seat newcomers near celebrities when possible. Soltner also takes pride in remembering what he served to each guest on each visit. "I have one couple who has come for dinner every Monday night for 18 or 20 years," he says. "They never look at a menu, and I never give them the same thing twice. Others like familiar dishes and order them in advance. I try to please them and often serve dishes like choucroute (Alsace's national dish of sauerkraut, sausages and assorted...
...wife Lisbeth. They had just been to an evening showing of the new Swedish film The Brothers Mozart in a downtown Stockholm cinema and had decided to take a walk afterward. For the slight, hawk-nosed Swedish politician with a ready smile, it had always been a matter of pride that he sometimes permitted himself to wander freely about the capital, unencumbered by the phalanx of bodyguards that protect other European heads of government. As the Palmes walked along Sveavagen, Stockholm's well-lighted main thoroughfare, a dark- haired man wearing a blue ski jacket walked briskly...