Word: pride
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...horse field. On the basis of his two-year-old championship record, E. J. Hayes's strapping brown colt, Lusty Song, had been made the winter book favorite. But at post time the crowd had taken a fancy to the Arden Homestead's Star's Pride...
There were solid facts behind their fancy. Star's Pride had beaten Lusty Song, driven by Foy Funderburk, in three straight races this season. Discouraged by that kind of record, Owner Hayes had fired Trainer-Driver Funderburk ten days before the race. Driver Del Miller, a 37-year-old veteran, and thus a stripling* by harness racing tradition, was hired on short notice to handle Lusty Song. A good many fans figured that the driver and horse had hardly had time to get acquainted...
...Next day, applauded speeches delivered in both houses by Australia's visiting Prime Minister Robert Menzies, who promised troops to Korea. Said Menzies: "History, sir, is continuous, it is dynamic, and never more so than when a nation has pride, when it has courage, when it has responsibility. Sir, those are the reasons why the Prime Minister of a numerically small people may speak quite frankly to the Representatives of an enormous world power in brotherhood and with, as I believe, high mutual respect...
...postwar Germany, husky, bull-necked Master Sergeant John C. Woods of San Antonio had gone about his business with a craftsman's pride and enthusiasm. As official U.S. hangman, he credited himself with more than 300 successful executions, topped off his career four years ago by hanging ten of the Nazi leaders condemned in the Nürnberg trials. "Never saw a hanging go off any better," he said cheerfully afterwards. He was not disturbed when bald, squat Julius Streicher, the Jew baiter, had snarled at him: "The Bolsheviks will hang you, too, some...
Antwerp took no official position, one way or another, on the sculpture in its big show. But the city fathers could read the press reviews with pride and pleasure. Acknowledged Brussels' Le Peuple: "Antwerp . . . never does things halfway . . . Honor to the city of Antwerp...