Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...preferred route for dealing with my shattered illusions. When I first unpacked Blankie and put him on my pillow, my roommates thought they were living with a diseased human being. "What is it?" they asked. "A shower mat? A huge used hankerchief?" I told them it was my pride...
Your predecessor, Ronald W. Reagan, came into office with a clear set of objectives--beat inflation, rebuild the military, re-establish national pride. Within his first 100 days the hostages in Iran were released, inflation began to fall, Congress was forced to spend more on defense and the first space shuttle, Columbia, was launched successfully...
Will Whittle start a trend? Not everywhere. Declares Roger Straus, chief executive of the Farrar, Straus & Giroux publishing house: "We would certainly not condone the use of advertising in our books." Thus the prospect of Joe Isuzu popping up in Pride and Prejudice is not quite at hand...
...dissenting voices on both the right and the left have had little effect on the majority of 1789 commemorations. Celebrations large and small, local and national, will attract record numbers of tourists to France. If these do not mark a true festival of reconciliation, the French can still take pride in the passion they have for their history. In Lyons, Jacques Tournier, the descendant of a water carrier who was guillotined in 1793, recalls that his grandmother refused to walk past the place in the market where the execution machine stood. "Now I too avoid that spot out of respect...
Harvard lost to Temple in the semi-finals ofthe NCAA's last year, and Temple went on to winthe tournament. This time it's not Yankee pride;it's just plain Crimson pride...