Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...reasons. Beck abhors strikes and stands for free enterprise with a capital E-as long as it is run Dave Beck's way. He is an able, honest, startlingly frank man-and in recent years he has become startlingly reasonable. He is full of the kind of civic pride which rich industrialists had once reserved for themselves; he wants his minions to prosper. His word and his contracts are as good as gold. He not only gets pork chops for his unions but disciplines them with an iron hand...
...himself a leading citizen. The job was done in part by the lever of power and the trowel of publicity, but mostly by the touchstone of success. By virtue of his hard-won eminence, he rubs shoulders with bankers and bishops, raises funds for charity, and serves, beaming with pride, as a member of the Board of Regents of the University of Washington...
...aware of all this last summer when he and ECAdministrator Paul Hoffman cooked up the idea of an Anglo-American Council on Productivity. The main purpose was to give Britain-as tactfully as possible-the benefit of the best U.S. practice. The first British reaction was one of outraged pride and suspicion (TIME, Aug. 9). But British industry and trades unions have decided, in the main, to string along with Cripps and the council...
...press was morally guilty on several counts. It was guilty of pride: it had assumed that it knew all the important facts-without sufficiently checking them. It was guilty of laziness and wishful thinking: it had failed to do its own doorbell-ringing and bush-beating; it had delegated its journalist's job to the pollsters...
...Happy Few. When the long night was over, all but a few red-eyed newsmen were red-faced too. The New York Star's Jennings Perry could point with pride to an almost-right October column titled "It's Closer Than You Think." In the small Garden City (Kans.) Telegram (circ. 5,238), Columnist (and publisher) Gervais F. Reed had piped that Dewey would be upset. And on Oct. 25 the Prescott (Ariz.) Courier (circ. 4,720) had said that, thanks to a divine power, the President would be "sustained in office." (The publisher's wife...