Word: priding
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...would like to say I have pride and did not have to work," Rodriguez says, "but pride is for those who can afford...
Hakim notes that Arias' plan for a settlement caught the world's imagination, while the United States' efforts in the same area had failed abysmally. The pact lead to an "immense pride by Central Americans generally" that the U.S. had been surpassed by the efforts of five small Central American nations, Hakim says...
This is not an easy fate to accept for a nation that has found its self-definition in being the best, or by kicking military and economic ass. But it would be a sad commentary if stripping away America's money and its guns would strip away its pride...
...everyone agrees. Many anglers view fishing as an exercise in applied natural history and take pride in their ability to read fish behavior by such signs as the turn of the tide or the flocking patterns of seabirds. Anybody who cares to can still catch fish without all the new equipment. People have been doing it for centuries...
...movement with helping to raise the nation's consciousness on such issues as black civil rights and the Viet Nam War. But error, for the most part, is acknowledged through gritted teeth. Reunion contains a breathlessly credulous account of his 1965 visit to Hanoi, replete with references to the pride and dignity of the North Vietnamese. In an afterthought, Hayden admits that he was "blind to the core of authoritarianism" in Hanoi. It is a "yes, but" apology, balanced with renewed assaults on the flaws in U.S. policy, and it appears to carry a subliminal message: We radicals were...