Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should be. The great body and fender presses, half-embedded in concrete, are useless now; the great halls that held them are being walled off, spiders will spin webs on them until the war is over. The massive, complex, special-purpose machinery which was once Detroit's pride has been ripped out, carted to parking lots; there the machines stand now, coated with grease against the rains of nobody knows how many springs...
...hard, the humiliating choice. He went, as directed, to a Ford Motor plant at the foot of Bukit Timah, a hill where, earlier that day, there had been bloody fighting. There, at 7 p.m., after some palaver, he signed away large pieces of the land, the power and the pride of the British Empire...
...Egypt. It gives a false impression to the American people about a friendly nation who love and admire the United States and think of it as a land of the free where the small fellow has an equal chance, and it insults a friendly people and hurts their pride. As to the first part of the article, it is not only fantastic, it is pure invention. . . . May I ask you where you got that pro-Axis stuff? . . . I want to repeat to you once more that the Egyptian people have struggled very hard and toiled for a long time before...
...that were spun into the best hosiery yarn, it would take care of only about 3% of the normal U.S. women's hosiery market. Furthermore, long-staple cotton has important defense uses, such as powder bags, balloons. Upshot: many a girl who used to take pride in her legs will wear either seamless (i.e., shapeless) cotton stockings made from coarser, short-staple cotton, or knee-length "campus hose," or nothing...
...discovered not the headboard but the coffin itself, forgotten and dust-covered in an attic. Thereafter he so stirred up the civic pride of St. Augustinians, even addressing the local Chamber of Commerce, that in 1940 the coffin was removed to a more seemly resting place in the Chapel of Nuestra Senora de la Leche, where in three months it was viewed by 16,000 tourists...