Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Navy's Pride, Navy's Woe. Seabees are a rough & ready outfit, hardboiled, hard-driving ex-civilians who sneer at protocol and red tape and are always taking short cuts instead of "going through channels." They have had their tiffs with the always proper Navy. Stevedores, handling all sorts of supplies for the fighting forces, sometimes cut in on such items as new shoes, jackets, a case or two of Coke. Proud of the work they are doing, the Seabees have sometimes blown their horn too brassily for regular Navy ears. But they have proved both to Army...
...order. It was also the most solemn. The thick snow, which makes every Moscow Christmas a white Christmas, lay heavy over a capital that is the heart of a nation. And that heart, in Russia's third wartime Christmas, beat strong and steadily with an enormous pride of achievement. It was as if the whole Russian nation, watching for the appearance of the first evening star that (according to the Russian Orthodox custom) breaks the absolute pre-Christmas fast, looked westward from Moscow, and could see the Russian armies, like a mobile wall, inch by inch fight back their...
...Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) etched in the latter years of his life when deafness and ill health had embittered him and he was capping his prodigious career as court painter with a furious moral summation of all he had seen. Samples: a mule, Goya's symbol of pride of lineage, fondling the genealogy of his mulish ancestors; a rapist soldier dragging a young woman over the contorted body of a baby; a man vomiting on a tangled mass of war corpses ("Is this what you were born...
...greatest potential box-office figures in its 50 years of prospecting. Not knowing at first what a radioactive element it had in hand, Hollywood kept right on stumbling and immediately miscast Miss Garson. Of her next film, Remember, she says simply: "Let's not." Pride and Prejudice was a harmless excursion into literature, but in the Garson career it was a round trip. Blossoms in the Dust at least surrounded Miss Garson with children, though they were other people's, and illegitimate, to boot. More important, it first mated this predestined dove with Walter Pidgeon. Blossoms was Miss...
...Everett McKinley Dirksen, 47, a big, tousled, thoughtful, farm-minded Representative from Pekin, Ill., a town of 19,000 population which lies on the east bank of the Illinois River, just south of Peoria. The Pride of Pekin told the Washington press that 36 fellow Congressmen from 13 States had signed a petition urging him to try for the Republican Presidential nomination. He insisted that he was a serious candidate. He scorned any idea of acting as a "favorite son," which is the main strategy of the Pew-Hamilton "stop Willkie" campaign...