Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...easier, after you have seen . . . the cities and the serene little towns . . . the vast, unpeopled prairies, the forests and the deserts, to understand why the pioneers who pushed the frontier westward . . . should have felt a great pride and joy in the free land they were building...
...that generations of Americans yet to be born will take a different sort of pride in their nation's power and influence in the world. . . . Now, Americans look back on the still-recent years when every man in free competition might make his fortune. . . . This was life as they wanted it-wide open, thrilling, rewarding...
...years. Paying tribute to the 20,000 Harvard men in uniform during the war, he said, "This is the day we've been waiting for, . . . tonight's meeting is a symbol not only of the return of Harvard to normal peace time functions, but one of great gratification and pride in the Harvard men who fought...
Labor Boss Humphrey Mitchell takes pride in the past but worries about the future. His labor law is strictly a wartime measure; control of labor will soon revert to the nine provinces. Then it will be up to the provincial governments to adopt labor codes as effective as the wartime law-else the Dominion will return to the prewar system of diverse, impotent labor legislation...
...Down-under" Australians are hypersensitive to any suggestion of uppishness from those who live at the top of the world, especially "Pommies" (the English). The defensive truculence carries over to domestic affairs. With fierce local pride and last-ditch tenacity they hang on to whatever they have won from others-be it battle positions, jobs, or their underpopulated country which they keep that way by restrictive immigration laws. Australian labor disputes, in particular, have long been notable for the stubbornness of the participants and the pettiness of the issues. Most Australian unions will strike for two pins, but would rather...