Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Mycenaean and Byzantine civilizations, of the Middle Ages. From the perspective of 1940, Harvard's Latin Professor Edward Kennard Rand declared, "At least nobody in the Middle Ages proposed, as has today been proposed and terrifically exemplified, a new philosophy of life, a realism most unmedieval, in which pride has been replaced by humility as the most deadly of the seven deadly sins...
...Pride and Prejudice (Laurence Olivier, Greer Garson, Maureen O'Sullivan, Mary Boland; TIME, July...
...year-old man had been ousted from home by his family and jailed for stealing, was living meagrely on Federal relief, his pride had been wounded by a hospital doorman who refused to let him use the visitors' entrance. On airing his tribulations his stomach acid first dropped, then rose, reaching a peak when his anger was manifestly greatest. Bloody shreds and bile were also found in the specimens...
Acceptance. Wendell Willkie was constrained and formal. The crowd could let out a whoop when he began with a reference to the traditions of the acceptance speech: "I take pride in the traditions and not in change for the mere sake of overthrowing precedents." But how could it do more than dutifully applaud when he heavily promised a campaign on principles-"not on the basis of hate, jealousy, or personalities?" And Wendell Willkie seemed to have lost the buoyance that had marked his whole campaign and that had brought the thousands to Elwood...
...first democracy was born in battle. The strong, proud people who in the Fifth Century B.C. routed the armies and navies of Darius and Xerxes at Marathon and Salamis created in the world a new kind of government while their strength and pride in victory were fresh and powerful. Athens of the Golden Age was an imperialism as well as a democracy, the first empire in history administered by a sovereign people. Its fleet ruled the Aegean and word of government by the people spread through the Mediterranean world as far as the mouth of the Rhone...