Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Carl Eppert, winner of its contest for U. S. composers, whose Two Symphonic Impressions set out to illustrate in music the role of vitamins in the fight against disease. But the most celebrated U. S. cultural awards of the year had not yet been handed out. Busting with pride, Hollywood announced that Oscars would be distributed this Saturday, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt as speaker of the evening...
...debate 111 members made speeches, some of them many times. The tone had been quiet, generally. Observers noted that, if the 77th is a war Congress, it is unlike every such U. S. Congress heretofore. Nearly every speaker on both sides preened himself on his lack of emotion, took pride in his own hardheaded, coldly practical viewpoint. All the tears shed for Britain could have been collected in an eyedropper; all the hate for Hitler couldn't have been compressed into enough arsenic to furnish a murder mystery. The Congress tried in its own way to keep its head...
...Remount does not have to worry about the breed of the hybrid mule ("no pride of ancestry, no hope of posterity"). It finds the usual breeds good enough, buys the best in sight...
...monument was chiseled this inscription: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine. At the spot where the car had stood a great granite block bore the words: Here on the Eleventh of November Succumbed the Criminal Pride of the German Empire, Vanquished by the Free Peoples Which it Tried to Enslave. For Car 2419D an American built a concrete hall. And at one end of the clearing, commanding its whole expanse, was erected a 17-foot marble statue of Marshal Foch...
...will acquiesce in a definition of morality so one-sided that it has deformed the very meaning of the word to sexual offences. And yet, if every man living were to sleep in his neighbor's bed, it could not bring the world so near shipwreck as that pride, that avarice and that intellectual sloth which the church has forgotten to write in the tale of its capital sins...