Word: prided
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...exercised by Byzantines, Tartars, Turks was, from the nature of the times, understandable enough. That the fierce hatred of the Greeks and the Turks in the present era led to minority expulsions was comprehensible, considering the semi-civilization that permeates those countries. But in Poland and Germany, whose peoples pride themselves on their culture, who would bitterly resent the slightest imputation that they were uncivilized, the mournful spectacle of thousands of Germans and Poles driven from their homes-gloomy men, weeping women and frightened children-must have caused the great Herald to draw a bar sinister across the escutcheon...
...notice to vacate their dwellings, leave their jobs, their household belongings, and go to a country that was so ill-prepared to receive them that many thousands had to be lodged in filthy barracks. And if the Germans were less inhuman, they were guilty of the same false pride, with the consequence that numerous Poles in Upper Silesia, many of whom were in the same position as the Germans in Poland (except a number of recent immigrants working in the Ruhr mines and elsewhere) , had to leave everything they held dear and travel against their will to the land...
...from no motive of pride or vanity that I desire to keep Kedleston estate intact and the mansion with its contents well cared for, but because, attaching as I do a high value to the survival of the landed aristocracy of Great Britain and believing they may still continue to be a source of stability to the State, I desire that my family, which has owned and resided at Kedleston for over 800 years, shall continue to live there and maintain the traditions of a not unworthy past. I have sought to assist my successors in doing this with dignity...
POINT with PRIDE...
After a cursory view of TIME'S summary of events, the Generous Citizen points with pride...