Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...TIME's first issue, dated March 3, 1923, some of its departments bore such whimsical names as Imaginary Interviews, Point with Pride (the good news) and View with Alarm (the bad news); they proved short-lived. The hard-news departments have all gone through name changes: National Affairs (now Nation), Foreign News (now World) and Finance (now Economy & Business). Many of the original sections, however, including Art, Cinema, Education, Music, Religion and Science, still appear under their original headings. These sections have been joined by several successful newcomers. Modern Living, now called Living, began looking at American mores and manners...
...Stull sees the contest as a battle between Harvard Coach Joe Restic's Multiflex offense--"Restic is a great offensive mind...he gives everybody fits"--and his own defense, in which he shows more a great deal of pride...
...women interest the author most: Alice McGoff, with a fierce sense of pride and devotion; Rachel Twymon, afflicted with lupus, passionately determined to work her way up from welfare; Joan Diver, devoted to self-denial and sacrifice. Each has reason to believe that her children are being victimized by busing. Cassandra Twymon, 14, shipped into white Charlestown, cannot abide the abuse and loneliness, and her bright academic future dims. In the city's atmosphere of strife, her brother Frederick backslides into crime. Billy and Lisa McGoff become disruptive students at Charlestown High because they believe the institution will cease...
...transmitted a stream of valuable and sometimes surprising data about the 465,000-mile-long cometary tail to jubilant scientists tuned in at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md. ICE's coup enabled American astronomers and space scientists to recover some of the patriotic and professional pride that was dashed in 1981 when Washington budget slashers vetoed a U.S. mission to Halley. "We wanted to make sure the U.S. didn't take a backseat to anyone," says NASA Spokesman James Elliott, "and we've done...
...Pride of North Miami bumbled his way to a 22-22 year, an even .500. If I remember my probability correctly, that is just about as well as any other monkey might do given a series of binary choices...