Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pokazhem Miru. And yet the Russians take pride in their sufferings and sacrifices. War's searing flames, they say, have tested, then tempered, their mettle. Today, though hungry, weary and regimented, the Russians think they are the world's chosen people. Their new slogan is Pokazhem mint!-"We'll show the world...
Members of the Seventh Platoon softball team, after a disappointing showing with the present Company "A" are now trying to salve their wounds and pride by playing against the enlisted...
...people over here are very American conscious; most of them to whom I have talked have expressed the hope that they can some day visit America. It gives me a feeling of pride that I am a citizen of the U.S. and am fighting...
Navy records call her PC-487. Navy men call her "The Little Fellow," and say it with affectionate pride. Like dozens of her sisters who do the monotonous patrol work of the war at sea. PC-487 is a modest, unspectacular little warship, about 170 ft. long, of 600 tons displacement. Her commander is a reserve lieutenant, chubby, ruddy W. Gordon Cornell, a Staten Islander...
...also had a department in which we Pointed With Pride (to "the annual taxes of $90 per capita which Britons bear without grumbling")-another in which we Viewed With Alarm (the "taller Japanese to be evolved by straphanging in Tokyo's new subway")-and still another called Imaginary Interviews in which the newsmakers of the past week "explained" why their names had made the headlines...