Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...university broke another custom by letting "the pride of Virginia, Mr. George Catlett Marshall," speak at the convocation. He recalled wartime conferences with Britons. The idea of understanding lighted his words again, this time with warmth. "We almost invariably reached agreement no matter how complex the issue...
That a weekly copy of TIME was available to our voyaging Canadian in the major cities of his continental tour is cause for some pride and considerable effort on the part of TIME-LIFE International, which publishes and distributes TIME'S four overseas editions. For TIME'S circulation abroad is governed not only by reader interest and knowledge of English, but by a host of factors known to every U.S. foreign trader. Chief among them-because of the world-wide dollar shortage-are foreign government exchange controls and import restrictions...
...nation's heartbeat is in its cities. This year, on the lake fronts, at the railheads, in the mountains, on the seaboards, the cities of the U.S., prospering in the postwar boom, throbbed with civic projects, civic pride, bond issues, expanding industry and trade. In old, carefree and once corrupt New Orleans, now reformed and very businesslike, the heartbeat was firm...
...plainest of the picture-book Plain People. Their men wear buttonless dark blue overalls and jackets, wide-brimmed black hats and beards. Their women go in bonnets and shoe-length black dresses. With fierce rectitude, they forbid themselves automobiles, electricity, telephones and tractors, rather than engender the sin of pride...
...Khachaturian, 43, which will have its premiere in Leningrad during the celebrations. He had scored it for 110 pieces, including a pipe organ and 18 trumpets. Said he: "It has no literary program-it is pure music." Then he hastily added: "But it has ideas . . . the legitimate feeling of pride and rejoicing for our nation's victory over the German invaders and the social significance of the 30th anniversary of the revolution...