Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...problem was complicated. One of the chief complications was the buttoned-up pride & prejudice of the various armed services. To date, the Joint Chiefs of Staff have been unable to produce an integrated strategy for World War III beyond an agreement "in principle." All hands agree on the primary role of air power. But Air Force and Navy brass continued to fight over their separate notions of how the available aircraft should be divvied up, who should use what kind of planes...
...Faded Flowerlets." A woman delegate from Naples chimed in: "We in Naples have won to our cause large masses of those poor women who once believed in monarchy by helping them to feed their hungry children, the faded flowerlets who were their dearest pride...
Eleven years ago, Chang was bundled into the Zurich zoo's elephant pit, a fat, ludicrous baby only ten months old. He had been bought as the future mate for Mandjullah, an older female. Rapidly he became the zoo's star attraction and the pride of his keeper, Hans Rietmann. When Mandjullah took the kids for a ride on her back, Chang trundled awkwardly behind, amiably accepting peanuts. Sometimes he would even snuggle his trunk into a pocket to pluck out a piece of candy...
Wrote Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky: "Musorgsky you are quite right in characterizing as hopeless, [but] his talent is perhaps the most remarkable of all [the Five]. . . . He has some sort of low nature which loves all that is coarse, crude and rough . . . coquets with his illiteracy and takes pride in his ignorance, rolling along, blindly believing in the infallibility of his own genius. But he has a real, and even original, talent which flashes out now and then. . . . Musorgsky, for all his ugliness, speaks a new language. Beautiful it may not be, but it is fresh...
Salem believed that Jefferson had imposed the embargo because of his visionary theories, that he persisted in it from pride of opinion, and eventually, that he was determined to ruin New England. Ten years passed before Salem shipping recovered from the effects of the embargo. The old spirit of adventure never came back. Salem crumbled, like one of the ships in her harbor. "It fell to atoms," said Oliver Wendell Holmes, "but never ceded itself...