Word: prided
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...also an offense to their pride because they know that they wouldn't have got it without the help of the government," he added...
...spokespeople said that although gubernatorial success is often overlooked inside the Beltway, the party takes pride in the fact that its governors consistently marshal local support...
While assignment to one of the 12 Colleges is entirely random, each retains a vibrant and unique character of its own. Timothy Dwight College revels in its strong intermural tradition with huge participation rates, and Silliman students take pride in the caliber of Tea guests their Master attracts. The Colleges truly are intimate communities within the large University. Perhaps by following Yale's example, Harvard can even revitalize its own flagging House system. MATTHEW G. ALEXANDER New Haven, Conn., Oct. 29, 1998 The writer is a sophomore in Yale's Silliman College...
...trouble with people who set their houses on fire is that they affect not only everyone living in the house but the neighbors as well. The house that was once the pride of the village is suddenly the blight, and one wants it either flattened or restored to its former glory. If it merely continues to stand where it is, it creates a perpetual Halloween and haunts the whole town...
Scenes in the style of Mr. King, normally complex and intriguing, are here sickening. Certainly the convention that spares cute animals in Hollywood movies, normally annoying, is here unforgivable: a movie that seems to pride itself on confronting its audience with the fact of the Holocaust nonetheless stops short of this triviality, which makes one consider how real the Holocaust is for this movie, and so for its audience. The ethics of making Dussander the interesting character and his strident accusers the bland and vapid ones are, of course, also questionable. Perhaps if he were a man at once horrified...