Word: priding
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sophomore Fran Volpe, a 177 pound Harvard wrestler, said he has heard wrestlers brag about how many pounds they can lose to make weight. Volpe reminds us, though, that this pride is merely a strange offshoot of the sport and should not detract from the essence of wrestling itself...
Event participants said they felt strong personal connections to their work, and exhibited pride and anger, joy and resolve in their performances...
...analogous to a cultural pride thing," shesaid. "You celebrate in your deafness, you areproud to be deaf, you have deaf pride...
Everyone has a point of pride, a trait held paramount in defining oneself. Some might have looks or will; Ted Kaczynski prized his brilliance. So it was in a sort of self-defense that he refused to allow his mind to be called into question, first by trying to fire his lawyers for planning a mental-defect defense, at least in the penalty phase of the trial. Kaczynski wanted to hire another lawyer, but Judge Garland Burrell Jr. scotched that idea as coming too late in the game...
Despite his evident pride in Adams, Maynard is reluctant to elevate his House's dining experience above that of the other Harvard dining halls...