My sadness during "Hit the Wall" was partly nostalgic, a product of the contrast between what Christopher Street must have been like during that hard, proud summer and the kitschy circus it has become.
Recalling him as a manager who "gets the job done", for whom the players at Blackburn worked hard, proud to be a formidable Premier League team at a small town club.
Ye Shiwen's response: 'The turn of events has actually motivated me to work harder.' " "Proud of you," said another microblogger, Mr. Tianhei.
But that would need to have been the sort of Russia Mr Nemtsov dreamed of: free, enterprising, hard-working, proud, slightly disorganised, and open to the world.
The author, a national correspondent for The Times, follows up "All Over but the Shoutin'," his 1997 memoir about his mother's struggle to raise a family by herself in rural Appalachia, with one about his maternal grandfather, a roofer, brawler and natural storyteller who lived a hard but proud life in the poor South.
Tajikistan: friendly, hospitable, hard-working, proud, kind, unique, cultured, generous, strong, open-minded, beautiful, and welcoming.
I was born in Croatia in 1970, and from my earliest childhood I was taught to work hard, be proud of my country and to present only my best side.
As I traveled through rural villages and learned to appreciate the hard and proud lives of indigenous women and men and children, shaving just disappeared from my radar as a valuable use of my time.
That makes it all the harder for the proud and intensely private lieutenant to learn to trust her supportive boyfriend.
I work hard and am proud of that, but I am also incredibly hard on myself.
One, called Firenze, is populated by the proud, hard-working people who live there.
