Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bataan taught the U.S. a thing it had forgotten: pride of arms, pride in what the young men could do when tested...
...Eugen, the 26,000-ton battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, known to Britons as S & G, had been continuously plastered in French ports. With the badgered Eugen, they had finally come out of their pit, had dashed through England's own Channel in February, dealing worse wounds to British pride than the damage they took themselves. Now the Gneisenau lay in Kiel. She seemed to have been hurt, as she had also seemed at Brest. But now she was in German home waters. So was the Scharnhorst...
...Price of Pride In Washington last week the Inter-American Defense Board, created by vote of the Conference of Foreign Ministers at Rio, got down to brass tacks, began to arrange convoys for those Latin American countries whose rupture of diplomatic relations with the Axis powers had led to submarine reprisals on their shipping. As 55-day voyages from U.S. ports to Bombay and Suez cut Allied tonnage on Latin...
Argentina was paying a high price for her pride. But she named whip-smart, young C. (for Ceferino) Alonso Irigoyen chairman of a new Interdepartmental Committee on Economic Policy to tackle the crisis, pulled in her belt, disregarded hints...
Long bitter toward the press for-as they thought-scandalizing labor's name, A.F. of L.'s pressagent Philip Pearl and C.I.O.'s pressagent Len De Caux last summer turned to the radio networks, with whom it had become a point of pride to be impartial in all debate. They started separate negotiations for radio time. By early December NBC was close to consent, but the declaration of war delayed the discussions...