Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...junction point on the Trans-Siberian; Khabarovsk, a new factory center which is also the headquarters of General Stern's armies; Blagoveshchensk, now almost within shell range of the Japanese in extreme northern Manchukuo; and, well beyond the Far Eastern border, the new steel & oil city of Komsomolsk, pride of the young Russians who built...
...their mountain homes move the lemmings to seek Lebensraum elsewhere. (A few reactionaries stay behind to breed the nucleus of another horde.) The lemmings are great swimmers, and since they have no way of knowing how vast the seas and oceans are, plunge in and perish in their pride...
Morale is quite good-always seems to improve in proportion to the nearness of actual danger. U.S. soldiers stand up very well under almost constant bombings. It would be useless to pretend all are heroes. But after a few days most of them turn up okay. They take particular pride in one anti-aircraft unit. Last week it shot down five bombers. An American colonel commanding the Moresby anti-aircraft unit was so pleased he gave five pounds donation towards beer for the anti-aircraftsmen-when & if beer arrives...
...first group of U.S. soldiers to see action against the German army returned to home base at Fort Knox last week. Bronzed, full of quiet, unique pride, behaving like veterans, they had fought for a month with the British in Libya, got out of Tobruk just two days before Field Marshal Erwin Rommel arrived...
...Pride of the Yankees (Goldwyn; RKO-Radio) is, as nearly everybody knows, Gary Cooper impersonating Lou Gehrig, late, great first baseman of the New York Yankees. Some 80,000,000 U.S. baseball fans knew Gehrig or his picture by sight. A year ago, when he died at 38 of a rare, incurable form of paralysis, they virtually canonized him. To biographize him so soon was a ticklish job. Pride of the Yankees does it with taste and distinction...