Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...where tea bushes grow in the spectral sau trees' shade, from residences deep in central India's jungles, from gay and airy Bangalore, more than 60,000 Britons had served notice that they were leaving the land which had been Britain's treasure and shame, her pride and her increasing care...
...which Walker saw fit to devote two thirds of his letter: was the demonstration Communist? Certainly there were Communists among the demonstrators. So what? Is it surprising that the Communists, who are always the first, but by no means the only victims of fascism and who have always taken pride in their militant anti-fascism should participate in a demonstration against a fascist like Gerald L. K. Smith? It is alarming, as well as more than a little revolting, to see Harvard students diverted from the real issue at hand by the game which seems to have become...
...porch and the River Taff flows by the back garden. At 79, old Jim Horner, sometime foremen at the Merthyr railroad station, is as clear of speech and keen of wit as ever. He is also as stoutly devoted as ever to his son Arthur, old Jim's pride and pain. Arthur has gone far since his childhood in Merthyr. Today he holds the fate of the nation in his clenched fists...
Congress, adjourning at the end of this week, probably not to meet again until next January, can pride itself on having been active enough in its seven-month session, but in too many things it has willingly failed. Broadly, the reason has been a confusion of statesmanship and politics, leading to such asinine Republican challenges as. "No tax relief, no European relief." Sinking back comfortably into their trust in man's supposed basic selfishness, these Congressional leaders based their political hopes on a fantastic combination of a brave, new isolationism and a hideous fear of Russia. But while a great...
...survey recently completed by the Radcliffe Alumnae Office reports, not without a trace of pride, that "unless they are thinking only of marriage or are on vacation," 1947 Annex graduates have already leaped headlong into the world...