For some, it sounds like a curse, for others a password to a proud past.

Community leaders will have tour guides at the ready to take visitors around a neighborhood they say has a proud past.

It was no longer perceived as a troublesome ruin, but as a symbol of a proud past.

And now it feels betrayed, robbed of both its proud past and of hope for the future.

The people insisted that artifacts of their proud past along the river be preserved.

Where we see a proud past, they see a legacy of shame.

For many it now shows the country's proud past and resistance to its occupation.

The German mark was a currency with a proud past.

He belonged here, fitted so well with Venice's proud past.

And the new theater is more evocative of Epcot than a proud Communist past.