Word: prided
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...Reagan's own popularity - even among many Democrats - owed less to his specific policies (tax cuts, arms buildup) than to his overall success in restoring Americans' national pride and optimism. If the Carter era had been associated with domestic economic woes and a string of geopolitical defeats that culminated in the Iran hostage crisis, Reagan managed, almost as soon as he took office, to convince the public that a new "morning in America" had broken, by getting tough with U.S. adversaries on the global stage...
...protest U.S. missile defense plans, or using energy exports as a pressure-point against former Soviet territories inclining towards NATO, Putin has had few reservations about standing up to the West. And if the creeping authoritarianism of the Putin era is presented as the price of their renewed national pride and economic prospects, many Russians appear willing to accept the deal...
...mother says, the kids he used to play with now have kids of their own. Some of them are selling drugs. None of them have anything close to his opportunities. But, she says, “They recognize that he continued and stayed the course, and they voice pride in him,” she says...
...Crimson shot 55.3 percent from the floor and 50 percent from three-point range en route to a 63-56 come-from-behind win over the Pride on Saturday night...
Hallion’s last three-pointer—she finished a perfect 3-for-3 beyond the arc—pushed the lead to 12 at 52-40, and the Pride spent the rest of the night clamoring to trim its deficit...