Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even more impressive was Cincinnati's human skeleton, 6 ft.-5 in. Ewell Blackwell. He looked remarkably like the National League's best pitcher, putting the mighty St. Louis Cardinals to bed with only three hits. In the American League, Detroit's curly-haired pride & joy, Lefty Hal Newhouser, began earning his $60,000-a-year salary first 'time out, letting the Browns down with just four hits and no sign...
Political moves last week were obeisances in the direction of democracy, and the $500,000,000 Chinese credit in the coffers of Washington's Import and Export Bank were frozen until Secretary of State Marshall approves the Chinese government. Now that Kuomintang party pride had stooped to allowing splinter groups in what had been its private preserve, the State Department can expect polite inquiries regarding the fund. It would do well to return equally polite replies-and no money-until next December gives the coolie a chance to decide upon his own government...
...Buckle Under." Uneasy gratitude was even more pronounced in well-off Turkey, which could afford pride more easily than Greece. There still was overwhelming sympathy for the U.S.; in a square at Izmir last week, Democratic Party Leader Celal Bayar was making a cautionary speech on the U.S. loan, when the S.S. Exchester let out a mighty whistle blast in the nearby harbor. Bayar interrupted his speech, turned toward the ship and saluted the U.S. flag, while his audience did the same...
...mother of two small boys, I find it hard to distinguish between pity and contempt when I read a statement like Mrs. Elmore's -"I am childless from choice" [TIME, March 10]-pity because she will never know or understand the pride and great happiness that can come only from watching one's own children grow and develop; contempt for her intolerance and ignorance and unsurpassed selfishness...
Versilov, calm and complex, also represents the resilient man who, in an age of chaos, manages somehow not to be destroyed, protecting himself and his ideals of honor and love with a hotchpotch armory of friendly tolerance, extreme reserve, silence, outbursts of passion and generosity, unyielding pride and unexpected humbleness. Like Dostoevsky himself, Versilov desires to love God and his neighbor-and is suspicious of such desires ("Very proud people like to believe in God, especially those who despise other people. . . . They turn to God to avoid doing homage to man [because] to do homage...