Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week in Manhattan, a crowd of notables celebrated the 25th anniversary of Mrs. Sanger's clinic. They noted with pride that: 1) there are now more than 620 contraceptive centers all over the country, serving millions of women in 46 States (distributing birth-control information is still illegal in Massachusetts and Connecticut); 2) in a recent Gallup poll, 77% of U.S. citizens favored the teaching of contraception through Government health clinics...
...Harrovians it seems more than a matter of pride that Winston Churchill should have gone to Harrow. It seems inevitable. But when small, redhaired, freckled Spencer Churchill, W. L., as he was known on the register, attended the school 50 years ago the Harrow community did not entirely approve of him. Some of the masters and the more model boys felt that he was scarcely the son of his father", Lord Randolph Churchill, then at the peak of his Parliamentary career. Young Churchill was careless with the school's traditions, which have the flexibility of the Swiss Alps...
...some information about "mysterious" goings-on in the Capitol. No sound reason seems to exist for any further delay; it would mean only a more pressing threat of inflation and a graver danger to the high standard of living which has for so long been this country's pride...
...beauty and our pride...
...discipline into its troops, the Army had a job ahead. Somehow the soldier had to be fired with pride in his job. Today, working away at his term of service and anxious to get out, the draftee who makes up most of the Army is a guy in a baggy, ill-fitting, dun-colored suit. If he gets no lift from his job, it is partly because civilians do not recognize him for what he is: a self-sacrificing server and defender of his country...