Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this desert army. Talk about spit & polish! The Highland and New Zealand divisions paraded after their ordeal in the desert as though they had come out of Wellington Barracks, and there was an air on the face of every private, a look of that just and sober pride which comes from victory after toil...
...evacuees would gladly and willingly suffer food shortages on the Outside if we were permitted to live in normal communities. Many of our sons and brothers are in the armed forces of the only nation we know and it is with real pride we would make "sacrifices" so that our soldiers should remain the best-fed in the world...
...furious climax in paragraph two, when young Miss Anderson's father arrives "at just the moment that I paid the inevitable penalty of nervous haste by spilling the salmon and peas all over the kitchen floor. I was on the verge of a tearful collapse (it says here)--my pride completely crushed." (Now here was such pathos, such tragedy, such stark realism, that I just had to go on to the next paragraph, without even stopping to order my customary scotch and water...
...seat of Barbary coast pirates who waged a losing war against the U.S. Navy in the early 1800s. Since 1912, when the Italians wrested it from Turkish rule, it had bolstered the Italian ego. Since 1933, when Mussolini began exploiting its riches, it had inflated Italian pride. Losing it was a shock...
...contortions, however, were not enough to convince the correspondent, who roundly denounced the turban as being too loose. Mahindra, his Indian pride affronted, could take small comfort in the fact that he had at least effectively disproved the hatter's fable that "no one wears a hat at Harvard...