Word: prided
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Convention planners seemed headed in that direction when they devoted the first day to a ho-hum parade of old friends and colleagues who assured America that Obama is "one of us." If Ted Kennedy hadn't dragged himself off his sickbed and into battle like James J. Braddock, Pride of the Irish, battered, whipped, yet indomitable, the day would have evaporated into little beyond the dynamic speech of Obama's wife, Michelle...
...accounting of its Olympic building spree. Nor could any nation come close to the People's Republic's haul of 51 gold medals, 15 more than runner-up America. The state-sponsored sports machine had delivered magnificently. No discipline was too esoteric in the pursuit of national pride. A gold medal in women's quadruple sculls rowing? Check. Men's 50-m air rifle three positions? Check. Women's 75-kg weightlifting? Check...
...wondered whether she had kept her secret from him out of shame or pride or the determination to make sure everything went smoothly when he came home on the weekends. "No," she says. She's had to talk about this over the years, but she looks away, clearly wishing she could skip it this time. "It was about my mistaken understanding of my relationship with my husband. He is my best friend. And I didn't go to him, and I didn't talk to him when I should have. I thought I didn't need to bother...
...Beau, Biden staked himself deep in the soil of the American Dream and Irish Blarney, calling out the wife who leaves him "breathless and speechless at the same time," his kids, his mom, Catherine Eugenia Finnegan Biden. He aimed directly at the fears and frustrations and pride of the working class, who know that work is "more than a paycheck. It's dignity. It's respect. It's about whether you can look your children in the eye and say, 'We're going...
Meanwhile, Chinese athletes - who in Beijing garnered a record 51 gold medals, 15 more then the U.S. - had selflessly trained in sports that much of the local populace hardly knew anything about before the Games. No discipline was too esoteric in the pursuit of national pride. A gold medal in women's quadruple sculls rowing? Check. Men's 50m air rifle three positions? Check. Women's 75kg weightlifting? Check...