Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Itagaki was too young and too obscure for a recorded part in the Russo-Japanese War. But he shared with the army the pride of remembrance, the deep intent to complete the conquest of Asia which the Russo-Japanese War had merely begun. Brooding upon a Russia still in Asia, a U.S. thrusting into the near Pacific through the Philippines, he began his rise...
...Minafer one of the most insufferable grandees the camera has ever made hateful. The grand. gloomy, theatrical fellow kills his pretty, weak, widowed mother (Dolores Costello) by the cocksure ruthlessness with which he prevents her marrying the man (Joseph Cotten) she has always loved. His selfishness and self-righteous pride of birth ruin his own love affair with Lucy (Anne Baxter), the vital daughter of Inventor Cotten. His character is his family's fate...
...tactics, and if the axiom of fight fire with fire still holds good, then we'd better praise them instead of condemning them. The answer to the whole question is sacrifice; no, not sacrifice with tears of sorrow rolling down one's cheeks, but sacrifice with a touch of pride and a thankfulness for the opportunity...
...Army morale officers because they thought painting might keep them out of mischief, artists in the armed forces were sketching away at odd moments long before Pearl Harbor. But this year the War Department's Office of Special Service has discovered that U.S. fighting men take a new pride in their humdrum daily tasks when they see them selves and their work immortalized on barrack-room canvases, mess-hall murals. Today, many big U.S. Army camps have their own art classes, and art workshops and army art have become the province of a special office in Washington...
...Chariot, a saucy little filly, had flounced off with the Thousand Guineas and the Oaks. Big Game, a rugged, easygoing colt, had taken the Two Thousand Guineas. Now it was up to Big Game again, and loyal Britons made him the hottest Derby favorite since 1918. With Imperial pride, the crowd followed the royal colors: out in front at the half-mile, the mile, the mile-and-a-quarter. Then suddenly the purple & gold seemed to stand still. In front at the finish was the Earl of Derby's Watling Street...