Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remained for newly elected Cowboy Glenn Taylor, the pride of Idaho, to supply the inevitable comic relief. Gathered with his wife & children on the Capitol steps, the wide-open Senator, banjo in hand, wailed his lament. Sample verse...
...always been sure they are the very best people in the world and own all the very best things. Last week, in a long, angry post-mortem on Rundstedt's breakthrough, the New York Times' s military expert, Hanson Baldwin, gave a stiff jolt to this national pride...
...military policeman, is famous in the Army. At his first station 200 soldiers signed a petition to the C.O. to billet Rodriguez alone. "I guess I have had more shoes thrown at me than any man in the Army," Rodriguez recalls with mixed sadness and pride. "Even when we went out for battle drill and all dug foxholes together to sleep in, it was the old story. When I woke in the morning everybody else had got out and dug themselves another foxhole...
...Hasty Heart (by John Patrick; produced by Howard Lindsay and Russel Grouse) adds up-or rather, whittles down -to a very interesting evening. In sterner and more skillful hands, this tale of the thawing out of a man who locked the bitter herbs of loneliness in the ice of pride could have been an impressive play...
Volunteer committees are organized, and a letterhead, heavy with big names, is readied. Then comes an announcement that someone has donated $150,000 or so. Other donors are asked to match or better it in an appeal to their competitive pride...