Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Admiral Waesche is proud that the Coast Guard, founded in 1790 by Alexander Hamilton, is older than the U.S. Navy (which took it over from the Treasury Department in June 1941). He takes pride in the Coast Guard motto (Semper Paratus-always ready). But the front cover of his new booklet, Deeds of Valor from the Annals of the Coast Guard, displays a more familiar Coast Guard maxim: "You have to go out but you don't have to come back...
...Pride of the Army Air Forces today is Lockheed's twin-tailed P-38 Lightning, which pilots heartily damned three years ago as clumsy and tricky. With plenty of high-altitude performance, the Lightning is now not only untricky, but a speedy, versatile performer, good for dive-bombing and troop-strafing as well as for meet ing the best of enemy fighters...
...becoming "more and more weary of politics. I didn't mind so much being on the losing side ... I even took some pride in it. ... At the best it was like rubbing one's fingers firmly over a nutmeg grater." But by 1932, Campaign Manager Ickes was in a position "remindful of the frustrated female who has often been a bridesmaid but never a bride." (He was "plainly," he admits, "not the vote-getting kind.") He watched breathlessly when two Senators (his friends Cutting and Johnson) were in turn offered, and declined, the Department of the Interior...
...grade prisoner can be promoted to the first grade after 30 days' good conduct. Even third-grade prisoners can advance upon recommendation of the center's commanding officer. First-grade prisoners can go into honor companies, which, says General McNeil, "will appeal to any man who has pride or self-respect...
...Russians take pride in the 8,000-odd newspapers founded since the Revolution, in the gain of newspaper readers among the 77 million newly literate peasants of the wide grain lands and the far-flung Republics of Kazakhs and Uzbeks, Georgians and Mongolians. And in two years of frightful war this instrument has held Kremlin and Party and People together...