Word: prided
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many Pittsburgh residents grieved last year when Californiabased Chevron bought Gulf, which made its home in the Pennsylvania city. The purchase wounded Pittsburgh's pride, and stands to cost it more than 2,000 jobs as Chevron shuts offices and shifts employees to other U.S. locations. In all, Pittsburgh Mayor Richard Caliguiri estimates that the Chevron-Gulf merger will result in the loss of nearly $75 million in income for residents of the area...
...pride never died. "The Communists have lost ground while I've been President," Johnson said in the fall of 1967. And there grew the faint hope that maybe the adversary would want to quit fighting and talk, and that, too, always seemed just beyond his reach. "I come to the office thinking Ho has to be on the line. But he isn't, and we can't fool ourselves about Ho. It's like an old cowboy used to say, 'There's no use being poor and stupid all your life when you can buy a pint of whiskey...
...mention the general interest in anything outdoors: fishing, hunting, canoeing, or camping. These people teach school, counsel troubled youth, and run local businesses. A life exists for them apart from Bulldog hockey, and yet they were at the game and kidding me as I rooted for Harvard. Their pride in Bulldog hockey could be termed excessive, but it is accepted as evidence of people still interested in and proud of their community...
Most grandmothers would faint at the very idea of finding a granddaughter in the centerfold pages of Playboy magazine. But when Karen Velez, 24, appeared as last December's Playmate of the Month, Doris Newman, 73, felt only pride. After all, it was Granny Newman who had encouraged Velez to bare her all for the magazine's talent scouts when they showed up in Miami two years ago. "If you showed your ankles or wore lipstick in my day," says Mrs. Newman, "you were a tramp. But today nudity doesn't mean much." Still, it can bring a few "goodies...
...author's public career and honors, the other of his failures and the early deaths of many of his family and close friends. By the adroit use of such detail, Barnes builds a warmer personality for the novelist than his glacial public image. Flaubert's stiff shyness and pride, his solitary stance in life and self-described bearishness become signs of human vulnerability rather than the armor of an artist against the distractions of the world...