Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...civilized world, in spite of its unpreparedness, mental, moral and physical, in spite of its lack of understanding and its self-deceptions, its false pride and petty contentions, had finally risen and destroyed its attackers. The price was the destruction of the greater part of Europe's material heritage, the cutting short of several million lives, the maiming of many millions more...
...skillful hands and lives and destinies and thoughts reduced to a state where only blind instinct tries to keep them alive. It is beyond human anger or disgust to see in such a place the remnants of a sign put up by those who ran the place: "Honesty, Diligence, Pride, Ability . . . these are the milestones of your way through here...
Major General Claire L. Chennault, 54-year-old 14th Air Force Commander, sent a deadpan application from China for a postwar pitching berth with the Brooklyn Dodgers. He pointed with pride to his opening one-hit, 6-to-0 shutout game in the 14th's softball season, explained: "It appears the war should be over soon, and I am looking for a place to settle down...
...publishers we take pride in the part, however small, which we have been permitted to play. We are proud that some of our books were good enough and powerful enough to have been burned in Germany.* We are happy that some of our authors contributed to the warnings which preceded this war, to the reporting which accompanies it, and to the planning which must follow...
...Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing, says Author Stewart, "that the state of mind seems to be more strongly than ever that the names belong...