Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Thomas Beecham suggested to modern composers that they become "more socially stupid" and "intellectually puerile." Lecturing in Manhattan, he feared that the "creative current ... in music is running dry. . . . Let's please pray that our creative artists . . . be outrageous, impractical, impossible . . . but . . . recover their pride in their craft...
...construction, No. 6 furnace set new records. The Russians like to say that they followed "the methods of Henry Kaiser" in building No. 6; it was assembled five times faster than the Russians had ever built a furnace before, finished in less than six months. Its builders' greatest pride: it was made entirely of Soviet materials. It will produce enough pig iron each month for 1,500 tanks...
...than the dogs, but far better known, are the bookmakers. Big tracks license 150 or more for each meeting. Two shillings (40?) is the totalizator minimum bet. But greyhound bookies. who wear bowlers and an air of everlasting love for bettors, jump to take a one bob wager. They pride themselves on paying off faster than the tote, take ?1,000 bets as well as one bob wagers in stride. Around their stalls at White City and Wembley, crisp ?5 notes (the largest now printed) crackle like pine kindling...
...A.A.F. Arnold pays tribute, saves his best for the men who fly and fight the planes. "Charts, graphs, strategy would mean nothing without the devotion, anger and bitter pride of our men. ... It is they who are fighting this...
...first meal with her husband's family, and found the lower floors of the great house lit with candles that they could not afford, and the huge chandelier in the center hall twinkling with a starry brilliance as it was lighted in her honor, she trembled at their pride in her. When she found the Negroes welcoming the bride and groom with incomprehensible outcries of good nature, and her husabcand's kinfolk, wistful and old, treasuring her as if she were some lovely, fragile, enameled doll, she moved into a world of enchantment. When she dreamed with Niles...