Word: priding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vastola's tenacity on the strip, his mental alertness and poise all derive in large part from his fierce pride. For him, losing, especially losing when you don't fence your best, is humiliating. He describes fencing as "more crushing from an ego point of view" than most sports and says. "When someone clobbers you, you have the joy of groping around on the strip with a pair of tweezers to pick up your...
...Candidate John Connally, who comes out of the assertive Southwest border tradition, probably would have handled the matter differently. Or so he indicated last week as he roared through his native land, proclaiming that "we seem to have lost our zest for strong leadership-we have to recapture our pride and self-respect before others can feel...
...supplies in the area for three days. The Save Uganda Movement, one of several guerrilla groups operating inside the country, claimed responsibility for the attack. The State Research Bureau, Amin's notorious secret police agency, has arrested hundreds of "suspects," but has failed to crush the guerrillas. With pride, the leader of one anti-Amin group declared in Nairobi: "Our office in Kampala was searched and four of our boys were taken away. But I know they died bravely, because the rest of our organization is still intact...
...freestylers that decided the margin of Harvard's lead going into the final day--and yesterday Princeton, the team that takes so much pride in its freestyle depth, came up one man short...
However, the preservation of peace is more important than China's national pride. China should have called on the United Nations or some other impartial arbitrator to settle the disputes...