Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...time he had opened his mouth in Congress. He drew up an Individual Voting Record (first session and second session). He summed up: "If you have any question on any point, I will be pleased to have you communicate with me. . . ." If the Hon. Clyde Doyle struggled with his pride at the end, he conquered. The great work was signed simply: Clyde Doyle. The whole thing was printed nicely in the Congressional Record and used up six pages, from A2863 to A2869-and could thus be mailed free to all his constituents...
...enter the church, and the mystic fervor with which he communed with God (it was difficult for him to say mass without being transfixed by ecstasy). His humor lay in the bizarre penances he exacted at confession and the outlandish antics with which he humbled his own pride...
...talking about was Bob Feller. The Cleveland Indians' pride & joy had just pitched a no-hitter that was a prime cut above the average no-hitter. This time luck had practically nothing to do with it; the 27-year-old Iowa strong-boy had just.rared back and blown down the Yankees, baseball's most fearsome array of sluggers. The victory tasted doubly sweet after two recent defeats and press-coop barbs that Feller's $45,000-a-year right arm was losing its sting...
...Pride is the religious dimension of the sin which flows from absolute power; and injustice is its social dimension...
...lifting a cow. On the Borden Company's County Fair program, last Oct. 16, he volunteered to test a legend: he would lift a Jersey calf, Phoebe, once a day, hoping eventually to lift a full-grown cow (TIME, Dec. 17). Last week, after 218 straining days, the pride of Somerville, N.J., failed to umph Phoebe off the ground...