Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sellout. Far & away the biggest-and most worrisome-event in Harry Truman's holiday week was a concert at Constitution Hall. The artist: Soprano Margaret Truman. In all paternal pride, the President wanted his daughter's Washington debut to be an unspoiled success-and hers alone. He did his best to keep out of the spotlight...
...longest step in aeronautical development since Orville Wright first flew at Kitty Hawk, N.C., 44 years ago. But the Air Force's pride of achievement was dulled by the fact that it had not succeeded in guarding the secret of basic aerodynamic design which had opened up the supersonic speed zone. The Air Force' could and did keep secret the speeds which had been attained in its epoch-making flight...
...months, the government had bugled Canada's eagerness to be elected to the United Nations Security Council. When it finally happened, three months ago, Canadian chests swelled with pride. Last week the swelling went down. Someone was needed to represent Canada on the Council, and there was no one to take...
...preaches sermons that are genuine expositions of the text and sense of Scripture, bringing to bear the great Biblical themes of God's judgment and mercy upon men who are dead in their complacency, self-confidence or pride? Your preachers . . . are still advocating justification by good works of one kind or another (maybe very orthodox or very 'Catholic' good works); they are not proclaiming the Gospel of salvation by faith in Jesus Christ. . . . You are still preaching the Law, and a pretty easy going or romantic Law at that...
...time the 5,145 prizes were awarded last week, G.M. felt that it had got its money's worth. The contest had proved a smart publicity stunt. It had also given G.M. a closer appreciation than ever before of two basic emotions of good factory workers: a strong pride in their work, a deep love of precision machines. By giving those feelings a stronger, more individualistic outlet, G.M. felt, it could take some of the curse of monotony out of mass production...