Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...aside for psychiatric cases of the R.A.F. stood empty for so long that it was finally turned over to general use. Besides strict recruiting examinations, said Dr. Gillespie, there is a good reason for the R.A.F.'s balance: flying is a highly technical job, brings out "professional pride," and a joy in accomplishing precise tasks...
...Undefeated, untied Duquesne, pride of Pittsburgh, should be chosen for the Sugar, Cotton or Orange Bowl-even though its opponents this season included such minor-leaguers as Waynesburg, Niagara, Manhattan, St. Vincent and Villanova...
...with the most superb illogic ("nothing but an instrument in the hand of almighty Jewry ... a second Genghis Khan"). The more he ranted the more pathologically insecure did Adolf Hitler sound. He puffed with outraged innocence ("South America is as far away as the moon"). He blew with outraged pride ("I will not stand for the British blockade saying that this [3,600,000 Russian prisoners] is not verified. When German military authority has counted something, it is correct"). When Adolf Hitler puffs and blows, he is feeling put upon...
...speech made over the Moscow radio by a voice which was high-pitched and soft. The voice was unemotional but it evoked the greatest human emotions, not only pity and fear, but pride and willingness to die. The radio gave the voice a hollow quality. Behind the voice there was a hum which probably was a German air raid but sounded like doom...
...builder, big, blue-eyed Major Reuben Hollis Fleet, chief executive and chief owner of Consolidated Aircraft Corp. Like all oldtimers in Consolidated's tightly knit hierarchy, he has long since ceased to be surprised at any feat a Cat performs. But he has not lost his capacity for pride. It has plenty to feed on in the Cat's nest in a sunlit stretch between crowded Pacific Highway and San Diego (Calif...