Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...romance--which may be why he lacks imagination and is generally such a dull companion," writes our learned "sociologist." "I have seen little boys behave so badly that in America they would have been spanked and sent to bed," he continues. "In Tokyo, everyone looked at their antics with pride and infinite indulgence...
...know, since we're both 54. Hall tried to join up with the Canadian Air Force, but was turned down. Best I can do immediately is write and work for the Federal Union group. I can't understand how Jane Austen could have written her Pride and Prejudice during the Napoleonic wars...
...Strong nationalists themselves, the Pol ish soldiers have been quick to appreciate that Scotland is Scotland, not a part of England, and they share in Scottish pride. One Polish lieutenant answered "English slanders" about highland weather: "Actually our Scotland has a better climate than London...
Unlike the Japanese Army, which has built itself a pretty sordid record in China, Isoroku Yamamoto's Navy displaces better than its own weight in pride, and he has grown up with that pride. He graduated from the Japanese Naval Academy in time to lose the first and second fingers of his left hand aboard Admiral Togo's flagship Mikasa in the great battle off Tsushima in 1904. Down the years he has absorbed and fostered the morale of Japan's Navy, the crafty conservatism of Japanese naval statesmanship, pride in such things as the superiority...
Paul Ludwig von Kleist is a man of great pride. He comes of a noble Pomeranian family, the most famous of whom was Germany's great classical dramatist, Wilhelm von Kleist. He boasts 36 ancestors who held the rank of general in Prussian and Pomeranian Armies. And last week Colonel General Paul Ludwig von Kleist could boast that he himself was the first German general to be pushed around by the Russians in World...