Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Salute to Valor. To millions of Mexicans the President's gesture was an amazing salute to Mexican pride and Mexican valor.† Newspapers ran black with the news. Men & women shouted it on the streets, stopped U.S. citizens to retell the story. A taxi driver named Juan Gomez said: "I even cry when I hear this. To think that the most powerful man in the world would come and apologize." Many a man of wealth and influence agreed. Said Engineer Ramon Ayala: "One hundred years of misunderstanding and bitterness wiped out by one man in one minute. That...
...Giggly." The President stayed for almost three hours. Despite his concern he enjoyed himself, was delighted as usual both with his mother's pride & pleasure and her occasional sharpness of tongue. She was waiting expectantly to hear his radio speech from Mexico-once she had confided: "I'm not a giggly woman, but I can't help smiling when people cheer at the mention of Harry's name...
...raised will go to the needy students at the Universities of Athens, Peiping, Vienna, and Warsaw, and the international student rest center at Salzburg. Their plight is desperate; their need is great. The activity of the Student Committee in this far-sighted humanitarian enterprise is a cause for pride on the part of all those in this institution. The first drive was a great success. Those who are in a position to give must see that this effort does not fail. James B. Conant
...since American thought and action and even food contributions constitute an unofficial but effective extension of government policy, the question remains-is the food sent to Europe by American students an instruments of understanding or a two-edged weapon which can be turned against the United States by the pride and hatreds of the old world...
President Conant added his voice to the Committee's appeal to make the drive a success, citing the "desperate plight" of foreign students and the pride the University may feel for aiding them...