Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...sonofabitching Kasserine Pass. To Private First Class Michael Scotto di Clementi it was digging a slit trench beside the colonel's tent in an oasis and wondering if anybody remembered Micky Scott of Our Gang comedies. To Major General Terry Allen it was a satisfying pride in his 1st Division and an occasional chance to talk polo with a British major over a cup of tea. To many another soldier it was a grave in a clearing at Bèja, in the Valley of the Medjerda...
...ever get one of my ideas into this magazine?" A couple of weeks ago, when the editor in charge of one department finally did pick up one of the Vice President's ideas, the Vice President went around the office all day beaming with pride. It had taken him six months, but he had made...
...Lexington Avenue, twelve expert elixir and pill makers kept busy filling a stream of prescriptions which has now passed the 1,280,000 mark. Unlike most modern drugstores, J. Leon Lascoff & Son sells nothing but chemicals, prescriptions, biologicals and a few special cosmetics. Within these limits, Lascoff's pride is to keep everything ("if we don't have it, nobody does")-e.g., a large, dignified, white porcelain jar of leeches, a commodity still in some demand for pugilists' shiners, stands just inside the door...
Catalogue of Credit. The colonel's pride in his branch of the service is huge and unabashed. His catalogue of credits to Army doctors may seem to leave little for other medical...
Sheean found Singapore "a mass of contradictions." He heard some Australian troops singing Sweet Adeline loudly and off key, and thought that their "raucous dissent with their surroundings" was "pure essence of Singapore-jazz dancing on the edge of the jungle, unthinking but offensive racial pride, a general clash of unrelated forces and a great unawareness of destiny." There was greater awareness at Mandalay, where the Flying Tigers' Colonel Claire Chennault first told Sheean about a new Japanese plane, the Zero. Chennault had reconstructed a fallen Zero, had great respect...