Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plan ruthlessly trampled some of British medicine's most hallowed traditions. Voluntary and public hospitals, local points of pride for years, will be bought by the state. Private medical practice, while not abolished, will not be encouraged, and patients engaging private doctors will have to pay twice, in effect-once to the Government in taxes, once to the physician. Medical practices may no longer be sold to other doctors, but will be bought by the Government, dealt out to applicants from needy areas. Doctors who join the system will earn a civil-service salary, plus additional small fees...
Professional Pride. In Manhattan, contrite Kibitzer Salvator Coliarono told the judge that Card-Player Francisco Vella was well justified in shooting him in the thigh...
...final game of the World Series depended on it, clouted one homer, one double, and two singles in four times up. Ex-Marine Ted Williams, 27, once content to be baseball's best batsman, was now working at his fielding, too. Brooklyn's Dixie Walker, the pride of Flatbush, was no cinch to be a regular...
...next days Europe's No. 1 surviving Fascist breathed defiance. At Madrid's War Museum, he proclaimed again "the failure of liberalism [Anglo-American]." He assailed again "the strongest of tyrannies [Russia]." He played on Spanish national pride and long-deferred social hope: "The outside [world] is not important. We are looking to the inside. . . . We are going to make . . . a better social justice, which is the basis of prosperity of the people. . . . Do you think that God would permit barbarism and lack of gallantry in the country of Don Quixote...
Last week, he finally took a decisive step to better himself. He did not quite manage the farm in Essex, but he became the licensee of a pub in Oldham, Lancashire. "Yungg Alber" was a man of feeling; like his uncle, he always took pride in making his victim's grim death throes as light and brief as possible. His new pub had an appropriate name. It was called: "Help the Poor Struggler...