Word: prided
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...igloo could fit about eight people and became a source of pride for the House in its short lifetime...
...Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy—because their love endured both pride and prejudice...
Each of these candidates harbors a Rocky-like hope. But they're also in deep--financially to donors and emotionally to volunteers who have quit jobs or taken a semester off from school--so they need a reason to stop other than pride or exhaustion...
...reflect the generational conflict in many a Sikh household, between conservative parents and children who want to break free. Dr. Rajesh Gill, a sociologist at Panjab University whose 18-year-old son sports a turban, speaks for many Sikh parents when she says, "A turban is a Sikh's pride, and I don't want my son to shear his hair once he becomes more independent...
...seeds of doubt about what happened in 1937 have sprouted into enduring enmity between modern China and Japan. Throw in semantics, language barriers, differing collective memories, and national pride, and you start to get a sense of why the two countries cannot agree on the "facts." This lack of consensus plays into the hands of demagogic politicians. Japanese nationalists know their constituents respond to downplaying and denial of the massacre. A vocal and powerful minority, they fan the flames of other incendiary political issues, such as visits to the Yasukuni Shrine, where the general who commanded forces in Nanjing...