Word: priding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...field, a recently-unknown career minor leaguer, Shane Spencer, has become the unlikely Pride of the Yankees following a month of Hollywood-style home run heroics. And, in pro football, the Saints and Seahawks all boast winning records while the once-mighty Redskins, Bears and Bills wallow in last place...
...creations of the animal (which can grow to a length of 7 ft. and weigh 1,500 lbs.) hang from her necklace and earrings. Driving her Jeep along the beach at Praia do Forte in northern Brazil, she hits the brakes and suddenly does something surprising. She points with pride to a big 400-room resort hotel intruding upon the sea turtles' habitat. "We persuaded the owner to keep buildings low and use unobtrusive lighting," she explains. "That way the turtles don't get disoriented on their way to the water...
Yale's only tally of the match came with 13seconds remaining and proved inconsequential,except where pride is concerned. Yale juniorTheryn Gibbons' goal snapped Harvard's string of315 minutes without allowing a goal. It was alsothe first goal allowed this season by Burney, whoreplaced Browning with five minutes remaining...
...rodeo. Its everyday agenda is heavy on such hot-button issues as late-term abortion, school prayer, gun control and affirmative action. The subject matter has done a good job of attracting true believers from both sides. "We're terribly polarized," says a staff member with a tinge of pride. "We fight like cats and dogs." Prominent Republicans with a cause include Charles Canady, father of the English-as-the-official-language bill, and Barr, an anti-gun control crusader with close ties to the National Rifle Association. On the left are some of Congress's strongest civil rights partisans...
...Alumni Representative Nicole K. Sherwood'00, who helped organize the visit, has known themayor for years, and said he is "a shining beaconof pride and hope" to the youth of New York...