Word: priding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...grounds for giving blacks a say in secular government.) The delegates also rejected a suggestion that they rename the nonwhite factions "sister" rather than "daughter" churches. The synod elected as the church's new moderator E.P.J. Kleynhans, who believes that church integration is an "indefensible policy" and takes pride that the church has been "a century ahead of the state" in developing apartheid...
...pride of the U.S. space program, the largest and most sophisticated vehicle ever sent into orbit. Circling the earth every 90 minutes, the 85-ton Skylab had been a scientific workshop for three teams of astronauts for a total of 172 days. But lately it has been in trouble. Unoccupied since 1974, Skylab has been losing altitude much more rapidly than expected, a change threatening it with incineration in the earth's atmosphere...
...NASA last spring began developing the $26 million booster engine. But it was clear, especially after troubles with the shuttle's own engine, that a Skylab rescue could not be undertaken before April 1980. By then, chances of success were reckoned at less than 10%. So, swallowing its pride, NASA asked for, and got, President Carter's permission to scuttle the entire Skylab salvage...
...most of all, it was a name made for a Southern football legend, the right name for the coach of Alabama. During the years before the South became the Sunbelt, football was its way of showing off to the nation, a source of deep, almost xenophobic pride. The conversation on the church steps Sunday mornings was an autumn ritual across the South. The Georgia people would crow, while Tennessee fans sulked and the interlopers from Florida had to listen to the abuse of the Auburn backers. The only time everyone agreed on anything was when one of "our teams" beat...
...elected." O'Neill marveled at how "the pendulum has swung back from independence to party responsibility." Wright also detected a shift in the reformers of 1974 and 1976. "A lot of them have matured," he said. "Many now are prone to listen to the leadership, instead of taking pride in being mavericks." Democratic House Whip John Brademas found a related change. "What we are seeing in the caucus," he observed, "is a reflection of the mood of the country-a mood of restraint and moderation." The leaders take that to mean that the 96th Congress is not likely...