Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...second year of peace, the foremost U.S.-Canadian problem was the problem of continental defense. But the problem, with its serious and delicate questions of national pride, military strategy and diplomacy, was being discussed on such a high and hush-hush level that Americans and Canadians alike were hearing only snatches, sometimes garbled, of what -was going on. Nevertheless, by last week, as the two nations prepared to meet in Montreal this month on the problem, some of the story could be told...
Australia's pride was Bernborough, a six-year-old stallion that was being talked about the way the Aussies once talked about Phar Lap. Bernborough, who stands a whopping 17 hands high, won 15 straight races in Australia before he finally was beaten...
...scarlet as the British soldiers' coats, the long-peaceful soil was dedicated as a state park. Said Princeton's President Harold Willis Dodds: the University was "succumbing to nostalgia" in its bicentennial year. On the preserved battlefield, any lover of human liberties could look back with pride...
...Sweet? This was the year when 16-year-old Jeanne had crushes on the captain of Central's football team and also on her handsome French teacher, the year when the debating society was her great pride and a broken bloomer elastic her great shame, the year of ice skating, theme writing, coonskin coats, and a senior prom that was the world's most breathlessly important event...
...This French novel, economical, quiet and painful in its insights, concerns the old Catholic bourgeois society of France before World War I. The central figure in the story is Brigitte Pian, a woman whose intense religious life is a mask for her pride and will to dominate others. The scruples with which she torments those dependent on her may seem fantastic to casual readers, but they are logical consequences of a false and formal Christianity...