Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Wherever the Spanish Jews went, they formed proud groups among their fellow Jews. They lived in many countries, mixed with many stocks, but they never lost their pride in their Spanish heritage. Slowly a trickle of their descendants returned to the home of their ancestors. In 1917, one Ignacio Bauer opened Madrid's first synagogue since the expulsion. During the Spanish civil war, it was closed down once more and looted by the Communists. But Bauer managed to save the Torah (sacred book), and the Franciscan nuns of Murcia hid it in the crypt of their convent. Under...
...Blacksmith's Son. Except for the usual pride in being a Texan, Ben Hogan had little to start out with. He was the son of Chester Hogan, the town blacksmith in Dublin, Tex. It was cattle country and most of Blacksmith Hogan's business was shoeing cow ponies. A silent, left-handed runt of a kid, Ben learned how to ride and to fight with his fists...
...industries could point with such pride. There was still a shortage of electricity in the Midwest and along the Pacific Coast, though utility men had worked frantically to expand. They spent $2.3 billion and hoped to spend another $3.3 billion to expand in the next five years. Despite the hopeful speeches of many a steelman that supply would soon meet demand, the great steel shortage was almost as bad at year's end as at the year's start...
...alienated from their leader because he has not known, as they have, either the agony of torture or the degradation of being tortured; between captured and captors develops a terrific desire to make the other party feel psychologically defeated; more & more the prisoners of the Vichyites are motivated by pride rather than patriotism. The pity continues to take odd and sudden turns right...
Last week, Louisville, swelling with local pride, heard its second premiere. While a packed audience in Columbia Auditorium clapped a hearty welcome, Virgil Thomson strode to the podium, ducked his round, balding head, and stared briefly ahead with his pale blue eyes. Then, brisk and businesslike, he drove Louisville's 50-piece Philharmonic through his Wheat Field at Noon, a series of well-plowed variations on two twelve-tone themes. When the ride was over, Louisville gave him an ovation. As a bonus, Composer Thomson led the orchestra in another little thing he had written, Bugles and Birds...