Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...unwed father has to worry about what the mother thinks of him. If, for example, she has an Electra complex (abnormal crush on her own father), she may just act as if her child's father didn't exist. This is damaging to his pride. At the other extreme, if she is a shrewish sort, her vindictiveness against him may reach "vicious proportions...
...commission found that both rural schoolchildren and their taxpaying parents are being "robbed." The larceny is not confined to poor communities. In fact, it is more apt to be an "extravagance" of wealthier districts, where for a variety of reasons (vested tax interests, local pride, standpattism) schools are not put where they should be, or consolidated when a merger would give everybody better schooling. West Virginia generally provides better rural education than richer Illinois, say the commissioners; some of the nation's best districts (e.g., in Fayette County, Ky.) and some of the worst (e.g., in Harlan County...
...first appearance in Palestine of Manhattan's brilliant young (28) Conductor Leonard Bernstein (TIME, Feb. 24), whose admirers have made him a kind of Sinatra of symphony. But he had never seen anything like this. Partly the ovation was Jewish pride in him: the audience was all Jewish-not a single British soldier, policeman or government official was there...
Britannia's pride took a beating as the waves ruled. The liner Mauretania, refurbished for the transatlantic run, was caught in the storm during her trial run. Unable to berth because of the rolling waves in the Mersey River, the big (35,000 tons) Mauretania was stranded for four days off Liverpool, while her 400 guests fretted. Among the passengers was Sir Alexander Maxwell, head of the Government's Tourist Board, who missed 14 meetings at which he was to speak on the joys of travel on British ships. The undamaged Mauretania (she is due in New York...
Critics of the U.S. press view with alarm the shrinkage in the number of dailies: only 117 U.S. cities still have competing daily newspapers, v. 689 37 years ago. This week the critics could point with pride to Phoenix, Ariz., a monopoly town where competition had now been restored...