Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...midst of a drive to obtain a 15 cent an hour wage increase for University-employed maids and janitors, H.U.E.R.A. points with pride to the gains it has won for such groups as the University Police...
...economic policy on Germany, though more specific than its political policy, has suffered from a basic contradiction. In the U.S. zone, Germans have been given no real opportunity for free enterprise, which is the pride of the U.S. system. The Nazi totalitarian system of economic controls and central checkups has been retained. We are not even showing the Germans what the American-type economy is like, or removing barriers so they could learn its advantages for themselves...
There are few greater roles-or grislier ones. In Medea, the wife whom Jason has ignominiously deserted in order to make a more advantageous marriage, are mingled all a woman's hate, an Asiatic princess' stung pride, a sorceress' cunning, a barbarian's violence...
DeMille is a movie pioneer in various other respects, too. He did as much as any other man to develop "spectacle" movies. He doubtless did more than any other man, with his extravagant bathing scenes, to turn the U.S. bathroom into a national pride. He was the first Hollywoodian to risk a movie on an all-out religious theme (The Ten Commandments, 1923). He was among the first to use "effect lighting." He pioneered with the camera boom and the "blimp" (silencing insulation which permits the sound camera to move freely). He was among the first to use color...
...game. In Virginia City he spent his evenings at a gymnasium taking on all comers for three bruising rounds each. His regimen was rare in a town where for a time every other building on the main street was a saloon, and where the brothels were the pride of the West. With another of Virginia City's diversions, however, Mackay was thoroughly at home, and that was speculation in mining stocks...