Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...country and he spends at least half of the year at the governor's summer home, built by Ed Martin on the military reservation at Indiantown Gap. With his wife and their two dogs Jim Duff patrols the grounds inspecting the new tree plantings which are his pride. Unpretentious and homespun, Jim Duff has only one ambition: "To get something started in Pennsylvania which they'll be afraid to wash out when I leave here two years from...
George H. Abbott, Andover. Hugh Amory, Dover. Peter Calingaert, Detroit, Michigan. Cornelius deW. Hastie, Takoma Park, Maryland. Nathan Newbury, III, Weston. Alfred T. Peaslee, Jr., Dubuque, Iowa. John W. Sears, Pride's Crossing. Alan R. Trustman, Brookline. Joseph S. Ullian, Newton Center. Herbert Barry, 3rd, Brookline...
...eight million people, New York is home-whether they live in Manhattan apartments ("a box in the air"), in the serried flats of Queens, or on the elm-shaded streets of stately old Brooklyn Heights. They yearn for it while they are away. They have an unspoken pride in the city's bigness, are reassured by its noise-though many, when they go to the country, find the chirping of crickets maddening. There are reasons for their fondness for its way of life...
Bohola Boy. There is no such thing as a typical New Yorker; there is no single first citizen. New York has little community sense; its drive, its pride, its success spring from small groups, working toward individual ends, making full use of the city's opportunities. In a purely political sense it has a first citizen-its mayor, whose principal job is to keep the metropolis' delicately adjusted mechanism from flying apart. In the year of its anniversary, New York's mayor happens to be an ex-policeman and ex-bartender, a onetime Army general named William...
...will of God be done," said Luigi Einaudi one day last week. He had just been told that he had been elected President of the new Italian Republic. "May Italians never have to reproach me for the pride that I feel at this moment." He had not sought the office. Then he thought of the inauguration to come next day. In consternation he exclaimed: "But I don't have a black suit-only this grey one and my tweeds...