Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pride of South Dakota
...Corvette Flower. This is his third winter of service in the North Atlantic convoys. Corvettes are the smallest British vessels in active service. They "would roll on wet grass," and some of Lieut. Monsarrat's most vivid writing describes merely the mixture of discomfort and deep pride which the corvettes engender in the heroic, fatalistic corvetteers who man them...
...editorials range swiftly from gloom to sprightliness. In 20 minutes' dictation, he whips off a column croaking fearfully against the New Deal, then charges without hesitation into another column about the peonies in a neighbor's yard. Often, and excusably, he pops with pride, says something about his 42-year-old son, William L. White, whose name is on the Gazette masthead as publisher and who, as a foreign correspondent, has written two recent smash bestsellers: They Were Expendable and Journey for Margaret But most of the time Editorialist White is translating state and national issues into rich...
Domestic Munichman. Jim Hurd was a poor relation of the Boston Leveretts. He had pride of poverty, a New England conscience, considerable talent, a gauche attractiveness to women, a fundamental moral feebleness. He was always deeply attached to his mother...
...bread, for pride, for simple dignity...