Word: priding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Meanwhile, Boston's pride and joy, the amazing Red Sox, are still on the road. They are currently in Cleveland, waiting for the Cuyahoga River to catch fire, as it does every summer, and playing the terrible Indians. Faithful Channel 38 will bring you all four games--Friday at 7:30, Saturday's twi-night doubleheader at 5:30, and Sunday at 2. Then comes the All-Star break, and the obligatory game, Tuesday night from beautiful San Diego...
...pain and isolation of the men in defiant yet oddly downcast expressions, in hushed stories told in hotel rooms, in wistful asides about other men's wives who remained faithful. Yet through the weekend, anger and a tinge of self-pity take nothing away from their evident pride and courage...
...regime and the people invested an enormous amount of pride in the preparations for the huge and complicated tournament (games were played at two sites in Buenos Aires and in four provincial cities). Somewhat to the surprise of some European journalists, who came expecting blood in the streets and confusion and incompetence in the arrangements, the great soccer carnival was run with efficiency, and the prevailing mood was one of warm hospitality. A foreigner walking through the swarming center of Buenos Aires was in danger of being danced with, and no visitor could escape being asked by young schoolgirls...
...album is a fine bit of syncopated genealogy, running past the sophisticated musical abstractions of Beiderbecke (Flashes, In a Mist) into the knife-edge humor of a minstrel-show song like Nobody and the surprising sleight-of-hand pride in a "coon song" like Shine. The music passes right through Jelly Roll...
...book? Army chaplains might some day need to confirm that, yes, Sikhs must never shave, that WACs who are strict Muslims must wear ankle-length garments or that Seventh-day Adventists may indeed require a vegetarian diet at the mess hall. The Department of the Army takes pride in its ecumenical new publication and notes that college teachers are requesting copies...