Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Typical of the brave attitude taken by the ladies in the face of a male threat to their feminine capabilities was that of Elanie Limpert, Radcliffe '47, who swallowed her pride and announced, "Shaw probably knows what he's doing. I have great faith in the Bard...
...well-digger who finds herself with child by the handsome son of the local hardware merchant, shortly after that worthy departs for the wars. The attitude of her father, an honest, independent man of simple and intense feelings, changes from shame at the slight on his family name to pride in his newborn grandson. Similarly, the cool indifference and suspicion displayed by the young man's parents toward the well-digger and his daughter is changed, upon the receipt of a false report of his death, into friendship and love for the infant who is their only link with their...
...Southern Pride...
...others had starved, most youths had escaped) had hope at last. Nationalist troops were advancing into the area, might soon lift the long siege. To Yungnien elders, looking fearfully toward the skies, it seemed about time. Between Communist mortars and Nationalist loaves, they had long ago lost pride in the literal translation of Yungnien's honored name: "Everlasting Year...
...knew how he had accumulated so much cotton, nor would McKennon say. But he took pride in showing the folks back in Dumas, Ark. (pop. 2,315) that he had made good. McKennon never got beyond the fourth grade, where he grew so much bigger than the other boys that his family finally took him out so he "wouldn't be a-disgracing 'em." Before he left, he won a spelling bee, a triumph as sweet then as his cotton deal was last week. Said he proudly: "I sure showed 'em where the bear...