Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...idea was that Joe Martin Day would be a strictly nonpartisan affair, just a home-district celebration by Fall River's citizens to show homespun Speaker of the House Joe Martin "the pride and affection they feel in him by virtue of the high office he has attained." The plan had been conceived by William S. Canning, a movie-chain manager, a Democrat, and Fall River's most zealous booster. Canning was well aware that Joe had carried strongly Democratic Fall River only once in the last 22 years...
...fact that it is now man who threatens to undo the history ordained by God. ... In biblical prophecy and apocalypse, it is God who in one of His finally mighty acts brings history to an end. Now it is man who in blatant self-assertion, in fear-nourished pride, threatens to take his destiny into his own hands and hurl himself to destruction. This is the miserable arrogance of the creature who never learned to serve his Creator, the final blasphemy of man who thought that he could be God. ". . . It seems to me thoroughly dangerous to say that...
...cross-reference cards lists church members by "talents," age groups and professions. He assigns one of his three assistant pastors to devote full time to attracting and converting new members, another to keeping church members jumping with activity seven days a week.* A major source of pride to the congregation is Dr. Evans' team of five vested choirs, totaling 309 voices. Dr. Evans says that this is probably the only way in which his church services deviate from the Presbyterian norm...
...many a plush hotel where the British dinner jacket once gave the evening scene the aspect of a penguins' conclave, the dhoti (loin cloth), sherwani (tunic), jibba (smock) and achkan (long coat) now held pride of place. Rohini Kumar Chowdhry, Assam's long-haired, wild-eyed member of the Constituent Assembly, demanded a special clause in the new Constitution's bill of rights to forbid any hotel displaying "Evening Clothes Only...
...troops to annihilation by Indians (an unpardonable sin in the Army's Indian-fighting code). Custer was sentenced to loss of rank and pay for one year. Dr. Hawley's analysis of the effect on Custer: "The giant had been stabbed in the back by pygmies. His pride had been severely wounded, and the wound festered, leaving an ugly scar. This scar could be made less . . . disfiguring only by repolishing his reputation to a brilliance that would blind the public to the defect...