Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Bullitt in 1926 was exhumed and printed serially in the Philadelphia Daily News to brand Candidate Bullitt as a man who approved of loose living. Bullitt's lifted-pinkie horror of Philadelphia slums was interpreted as a public slur on every right-thinking Philadelphian's civic pride. At the last moment, Franklin Roosevelt called the attacks on Bullitt a "mass of falsehoods." But the endorsement had no effect. Bill Bullitt was hurled back into private life; Barney Samuel got ready for four years of complaints about the nauseous drinking water, the unkempt streets, the lagging fire department...
...takes pride in the fundamental integrity of its courts. But last week, in the New York election, citizens learned by what precarious threads their pride sometimes hangs...
...Anger & Pride. Patriotic Frenchmen, friendly to the U.S. and Britain, were suddenly noting the decline, both in French Africa and in Metropolitan France, of British-American prestige. Resentment toward the U.S., originally born of failure to deal harshly with Vichyites in North Africa, was growing. Gaullism was a spreading fire...
...said, pending the day when all of Italy could decide on a monarchical or republican government. But what the beaten and heartsick people of Italy needed most of all, said Sforza, was at least one dynamic and truly democratic act that would fan the flames of hope and national pride. That act, he plainly implied, was abdication...
Frayed tempers betrayed the Algiers French into emotional overemphasis. The very fact that U.S. and British troops had driven out the Germans, and would eventually free France, bruised French pride. Irritated by what they have for a year called "American interference" in French North African politics, they evidenced growing distaste for U.S. troops. Typical of their unreasonable, but understandable, complaints: Yanks drive their jeeps too fast, talk too loudly in bars...