Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...everybody to come see what he has dug up. This printing is only the second in more than a century, and the first ever made in the U.S. Yet Hogg's story is no mean satire; it might serve today as a text on the disease of pride; and above all it is one of the few horror stories in the language that really reaches the bottom of the well of evil...
...F.U.S.S. adds, "Fifteen years ago the record achieved by the (Union) would have enabled us to answer your questions with pride. . . . Nowadays our situation is totally changed; our organization in Spain can only carry out its work in the underground under the continuos threat of persecution; in exile, it is too scattered all over three continents...
...real feeling of U.S. public opinion toward Spain." An editorial in Juventad proclaimed: "American friends, we . . . have more reasons to hate you than to love you . . . But we can forgive all when he who has offended comes to us with a smile on his lips. In this case our pride gives way to simpatia, and we are ready to fraternize with our old enemy who is now our new friend...
Moorish King. Jordan's Abdullah arrived at La Coruña, a few miles down the coast from El Ferrol, before the Americans left. Disgruntled because his British masters had put him aboard an ordinary passenger steamer, the Highland Brigade, the Hashimite sovereign had his pride restored when Host Franco stopped the British steamer in the harbor and provided a Spanish naval launch for his Arab guest to come ashore in regal style...
...biggest obstacle to this sensible plan was home-town pride. Detroit refused to join, and Cincinnati, New Orleans and Pittsburgh have not yet decided whether to come in. But brokers in the other cities liked the idea. Instead of trading in only 14 stocks-as on the Minneapolis Exchange-the consolidated bourse would give Minneapolis floor traders 500 to deal in. They also liked keeping the whole commission for an out-of-town trade, instead of splitting it with a "correspondent" on another exchange. Businessmen also took to the idea of getting a wider market for their companies' shares...