Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ventura County she became as well known as Oxnard's huge American Crystal Sugar Co. refinery. Lucy was the more spectacular sight. She wore bright, low-cut silk dresses from which her slatlike collarbones protruded, and she affected picture hats and high-heeled shoes. Her wigs were her pride -she had a long, black, wavy one, a short, straight, bobbed one, and for special occasions a shoulder-length...
...Brass Knuckles. Spruille Braden himself was well aware that Latin sovereignty, Latin pride and-probably more often than he would like-Latin sloth were involved. Long before his critics awoke to the fact, he had realized that his No. 1 antagonist, Perón, commanded some popular support (perhaps 30% of organized Argentine labor, for instance). He understood, better than most, that the U.S. could do little more against the Argentine regime than continue to make U.S. displeasure known...
...pride-bound U.S. Marine Corps dove into its statistical records last week, came up with the announcement that nearly 90% of its 589,852 officers and men had served overseas in World War II. Marine officers, who had long sung "We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine," could be proudest of all: 98.3% of them had seen active duty overseas...
Even with official propaganda, apparently limitless funds and control of the labor unions, the Government had found it difficult to promote a country-wide organization behind Dutra. Reasons: 1) state pride, 2) apathy toward dull Candidate Dutra, 3) the hot weather. But now that state governors were to fight for their own political lives on Dec. 2, they would have to roll up their sleeves, rally town mayors, dogcatchers and other local officials behind the Government cause...
...Pride of the Marines (John Garfield, Eleanor Parker, Dane Clark; TIME, Sept...