Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...witness said: "Claude's mentality is that of the inventor, which is closely akin to a paranoiac mentality as shown by errors of judgment, exaltation of one's personality, pride and vanity and social inadaptability...
...other places where Mitscher might have been were hit -an office and his living quarters, where all his clothing except "the uniform he was wearing was destroyed. Soon Mitscher had to transfer by boatswain's chair to the destroyer English, which flew his three-starred flag with unaccustomed pride. Mitscher soon went to another carrier...
...Chicago Daily News's ballyhoo on its $75,000 pride & joy: the diary of Count Galeazzo Ciano, Mussolini's late son-in-law. Last week 70 U.S. papers, and 25 papers abroad, began printing it. Perhaps no document could have lived up to such advance billing; the Ciano diary did not even come close...
After three months of defense in the incredibly difficult mountains, the pride of Japan's Philippine Army had had enough. As braggart Lieut. General Tomoyuki Yamashita's 20,000 remaining men, demoralized and disorganized, stumbled toward the coast, U.S. troops came in fast behind them through the rough-walled gorges of the Cagayan Valley...
Died. Lady Sybil Eden, 78, mother of Anthony; in Windlestone, England. Of her son's ups-& -downs as British Foreign Secretary, she once remarked: "I often feel like bubbling over with pride, and at times like bursting into tears." Died. Amelie Rives (Princess Trou-betzkoy), 81, who, as a golden-haired Southern beauty in her twenties, scandal ized readers in the '80s and '90s with her popular novel, The Quick or the Dead; after long illness; in Charlottesville...