Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by orders of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city. More than pride and defiance was behind . the Arab orders. By withdrawing Arab workers, their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa. Jewish leaders said wishfully: "They'll be back in a few days. Already some are returning...
Spokesmen from the Democratic, Republican, and "Third" Parties "looked at the record," "pointed with pride" at their own superiority, and came to the same conclusion, "vote for us," at last night's Law School Forum, held in Rindge Tech, on the subject "Which Party...
Members of the orchestra were not so affectionate. They knew him in rehearsal as a sweatered tyrant ("Don't spik! If you spik, I go!") who would exhaust them by demanding repetitions until his long-awaited "Vonnderful! Ah, vonnderful!" finally came. But they shared with him a fierce pride in their orchestra, which Bostonians-critics, musicians and public-regard as America's best. (Less partisan critics believe that the Boston and the Philadelphia are hard to choose between, with the New York Philharmonic a strong third...
...Wonder. Europe's pride is the tender and assertive pride of age. The fashion now among such British intellectuals as Novelist Evelyn Waugh and Essayist Cyril Connolly is to say that only the dying old have life, and that the life and vigor of America are the world's true death. At earthier levels, the feeling is usually met in the adjective "bloody" which is indulgently prefixed to anything American-including our aid. We must not let irritation at these manifestations blind us to their meaning, which in its crudest terms is simply that we will get more...
Last year, against the stern advice of L.B., Irene began looking for a play to produce. When Heartsong flopped, Hollywood smiled knowingly. But Tennessee Williams' agent, who had been popping in to rehearsals to watch Irene work, offered her the chance to produce Streetcar. Says Irene with unashamed pride: "Producers have to be cast just as carefully as actors, you know...