Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans could not defend Berlin, then what could they defend? And if Berlin was no longer worth defending, then what center of German pride and might did not face the same fate...
Tradition and Ideas. From Peter the Great, from Suvorov, who carried Russia's flag across the Alps, from Kutuzov, who beat Napoleon, the thread of traditional reverence for the cannon ran directly to Voronov. He was a product of Red training, but he took pride in being heir to Russia's rich martial tradition, and he tried to inspire his aides with this pride. He would sit for long hours bulked behind his desk -all 6 ft. 5 and 225 Ib. of him -quietly talking to his officers...
Voronov's special pride is the secret Katyusha (endearing for Katherine), of which the Russians said, "Where Katyusha strikes, nothing lives." Newsmen guessed: it is a multi-barreled, electrically operated rocket gun, set roughly at a 45° angle. Last week U.S. movie audiences saw newsreels of the capture of Gomel, goggled at shots of Katyusha's rockets, streaking like lightning through clouds of dense smoke...
With plenty of pride the Navy formally announced last week that it had been operating for months from a mammoth new base in California about 80 miles north of Los Angeles. The once sleepy little town of Hueneme (pronounced Wyneemee) now harbors the major advanced depot for Pacific operations...
...deeper companionship. He also likes to talk to her. Strange Fruit begins (and reaches its most moving passages) with Nonnie's discovery that she is pregnant and that she wants to bear Tracy's child. Miss Smith handles well the scenes in the Anderson household, their pride in Nonnie as the most promising member of their educated family, their affectionate concern for her and their stupefied distress at the ghastly events that begin when Tracy, drunk, sick, increasingly demoralized, tries to buy a black husband for her. The town of Maxwell in the windless heat of Georgia midsummer...