Word: priding
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...each day at 2:45 p.m. under Amtrak's auspices. (Southern takes over at Washington.) Rather, for the passenger embarking on the 1,378-mile, 28-hour trip to New Orleans, the Crescent City, there is the comforting scent of soap and polish, the promise of solicitude, of pride and punctuality. Not to mention a rockaby sleep, punctuated by the occasional hissing stop, and a glimpse of some dimly lit Southern station in the dark...
...continually advocate or indulge in any other life-style that the church regards as sinful. The church thus rejected a liberal policy that had been proposed by a special task force. But the new document says that homosexuality should not be singled out as any worse a sin than pride, greed or adultery, and it denounces "homophobia" (hatred and fear of homosexuals). The nuanced policy admits the possibility of ordination for people with a homosexual orientation, so long as they are "repentant" and committed to celibacy. It directs presbyteries not to quiz ministerial candidates about homosexuality unless they themselves have...
...Harvard-Yale race for the Sexton Cup, first rowed in 1852, is the oldest intercollegiate athletic event, and the Crimson has pride as well as tradition to uphold. Harvard holds a 65-47 edge in the series, but Yale's upset triumph in the Sprints casts a show on the Crimson hopes...
...sense of independence and self-esteem. Because the disabled might do things more slowly or in a different way than able-bodied people does not mean that we cannot do them well or that we require help. On the contrary, some of us take a great deal of pride and pleasure in our various methods of adjusting to or compensating for out disabilities...
...first few months of his presidency, Jimmy Carter was viewed with fond and hopeful pride by the leaders of organized labor, who felt they had been decisive in his victory at the polls. "We were in a state of euphoria," recalls Al Zack, AFL-CIO spokesman and a confidant of Labor Chief George Meany. "We had a wish list that was a mile long." But then the disappointments began. Carter and Meany clashed over minimum wage, unemployment, and Social Security legislation. Meany found so many black marks on his list that he added them up and gave Carter a grade...