Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Distress. Berlin and Rome, having buttered up Serrano as their pride & joy, had no ready explanations for his new role as whipping boy. In a sense his dismissal was a diplomatic slap, but it meant no sudden switchover in Franco's generally pro-Axis policy...
Frank Parker from California played his first matches at Forest Hills ten years ago as a 16-year-old pride of famed Tennis Coach Mercer Beasley. For a decade one of the first ten ranking U.S. players, Parker developed the steadiest game in contemporary U.S. tennis, but he could never win against brilliance, had never won the national title. This year gave him his chance. The first full test came when he met Segura in the semifinal round...
...work and worrying about the opening of a second front and the military crisis in Russia, should be inclined to forget India, or merely hope for the best. But the New Statesman's voice of conscience demanded a break in the deadlock "at any cost to our Imperial pride." Steps proposed: 1) request the mediation of President Roosevelt; 2) replace Indian Viceroy Lord Linlithgow; 3) guarantee post-war Indian independence "in the name of the United Nations"; 4) issue a Government White Paper on "the real extent of the damage and trouble in India"; 5) consider the Indian situation...
...Pride of the Yankees (Gary Cooper, Teresa Wright, Walter Brennan; TIME...
...with the Red Sox and Yankees-retired seven years ago. Yet both managed to squeeze into their old uniforms last week. Pig raising on his Maryland farm has kept Old Barney's weight down. Rigid diet (to make his old playing weight for his part in the movie, Pride of the Yankees} has pared some of the paunch the Babe had acquired since 1935 in easy living...