Word: exult
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Burden and Credit. One man more than any other had a right to exult over this fruition of Red air power. Rescuing and rebuilding the Air Force, after Germany's assault had all but knocked it out, had been no one-man job. But one man shouldered the heaviest part of the burden and in Russia he gets the lion's share of the credit. He is Marshal Alexandr Alexandrovich Novikov, chief of the Red Air Force...
...bomb Rome? The deed, he warned, "would rankle in the memory of every good European as did Rome's destruction by the Goths." Lord Lang of Lambeth (see p. 56), 79-year-old retired Archbishop of Canterbury, seconded the Bishop. Lord Lang was distressed by a tendency to "exult and gloat" over the bombings of Germany. He feared that this attitude would result in "a lamentable lapse" in Britons' outlook...
...Shall we the Catholics of America remain silent. . . ? The communists, athe ists and pagans . . . will exult if Rome . . . with its churches, tombs, altars, monuments, relics . . . becomes a huge conflagration and the sacred bones of its holy Martyrs consumed and lost forever...
...past year the British working classes have grown increasingly aware that they were getting two negatives where they wanted two affirmatives. Last week they had good reason to exult. To one demand (the other is a second front) the British Home Secretary, Laborite Herbert Morrison, finally said "Yes," permitting the resurrection of the British Communist newspaper, the Daily Worker. The decision was proof that labor could still control its leaders by agitation...
...Allied situation in the Far East being what it is--decidedly critical--Herr Goebbels must do plenty of laughing when American papers, under banner spreads, exult over each tiny counterstab by MacArthur or the Dutch fleet. Not so long ago, Goebbels was paying French newspapermen lucratively for the same type of publicity that the American press is now providing free of charge. His point was, on the eve of their conquest, to lull the French public into the false security of a rumored German conflict with Russia...