Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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There was also a sporting pride in the fact of Russia's comeback: in two years the Russian nation in arms had climbed back 1,300 miles from retreat (finally halted at Stalingrad) to crashing victory on the Polish plains...
...travel sketch, essays on English heroes and English character, reprints of the author's literate radio broadcasts to English schoolchildren. Professor Rowse says that when he came to collect his writings he was surprised to find the strong and consistent theme that ran through them-"something more than pride in, a deep love for, English things . . . for our tradition itself and the literature in which it is expressed and handed on." It is likely to inspire much the same emotion in President Roosevelt (most of whose ancestors were English, not Dutch), and any other sympathetic U.S. reader...
...legends built up around me. I'm just doing what they're paying me for." The record of his tours of duty is as unglamorous as it is long; in World War I, though he got to France, he saw no action. In one thing he takes pride: he has commanded, in relentless progression, a squad, a platoon, a company, a regiment, a brigade, a division, a corps and an army. He dislikes the lofty impersonality forced on him by his present duty-"Hell, I'd rather have a regiment." Now, he says...
Cattlemen, crowded into Denver for the 1945 National Western Livestock Show, saw nothing at all unusual in this procedure. Both bulls were white-faced Herefords, the predominant Western beef strain and the pride of Western stockmen. In bringing $50,000-the highest price ever paid for a U.S. beef animal-the T.T.s Triumphant and Regent had hung up a mark for stockmen to shoot...
George Trudeau and his orchestra will play in the hall which will be decorated in a naval motif. The House Committee has announced with pride that the services of a female vocalist have been accured...