Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...easy to understand the sense of pride the nation took in its accomplishment. After all, hadn't America been founded on just the same spirit of adventure and exploration? Didn't the sheer effort required to catapult three astronauts millions of miles beyond their native sphere attest, once and for all, to the dominance of American technology...
Bush's plan sounds suspiciously similar: a gung-ho attempt to capitalize on a sense of national pride without careful consideration of the practical benefits or the alternatives...
...would seem difficult to root for the success of such an unpleasant character, but Casey artfully provides good reasons for doing so. Pierce's "swamp Yankee" pride is based on a fierce, if sometimes obnoxious, integrity. He does not ask for anything except the chance to make a decent living at what he knows best. The world needs seafood, and Pierce has learned through long experience how to find and catch it. He is, in fact, an archetypal figure in American literature, the little guy at odds with big institutions, battling the triumph of newfangled shoddiness over old traditions...
...revolution has failed." To thousands of homosexuals who marched last weekend in the annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Day parades, the thought may be heretical, but it is exactly the argument put forth by Marshall Kirk and Hunter Madsen, two Harvard-trained psychologists, in a provocative new book, After the Ball (Doubleday; $19.95). As Kirk and Madsen point out, the revolution began 20 years ago last week in New York City at a gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, when for the first time patrons fought back against police conducting a routine raid...
...restore me to my Texas heritage--a trip to West Texas and the Rio Grande, home of millions of rattlesnakes, very few peoople and the ghost of Pancho Villa. It was a desolate Spring Break to be sure, but it also brought me back to a feeling of pride in my home. Between the combination of West Texas mesquite trees and glorious Dallas azaelas, I realized that no matter how influential my education at Harvard might be, I owed something to my roots...