Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...amazed to read that the leader of the Harvard student body, Chair of the Undergraduate Council Kenneth E. Lee, could express pride in his disfiguring of University furniture (February...
That Darman takes such pride in a pact unfamiliar to nearly all ordinary mortals -- rather than megadeals like the 1983 Social Security rescue or the 1986 tax-reform act -- shows still another of his several facets. He is a relentless future freak. In a town obsessed with the crisis du jour, he frequently peers at the far horizon and tosses off jeremiads about his sightings. Lately he has been preaching against the rampant impulse for instant gratification. Americans "need to reinstill in ourselves a sense of the importance of the future," he argues. No one argues back in principle...
...other children in family and foster homes. Beatings by boyfriends and husbands were regular. What brought their world crashing down was an out-of-control lust for the intense feelings of power and well- being that flow from a hit of crack. "Crack has taken away these women's pride," says Thomas. "By the time they find their way here, they'll beg, steal and trade their bodies to the dope man for more." The mothers uneasily deny that their babies were affected by crack, but Thomas says all the children have shown signs of their mothers' drug...
...this case, an attempt to create a festive atmosphere in the Union (certainly a difficult task) ended up bursting everyone's ballon. Workers were robbed of their pride, and the misplanned event offended some Asian students...
...want to win for pride's sake, but we're all having fun," freshman Steve Brown says. "It's not a problem that we're not as serious as the varsity. We're not making careers...