Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...weeks ago we passed up an opportunity to tell all that on $65 per month our little company's contributions averaged $38.75 per man in the Pearl Harbor bond drive, to the mystification of all, especially the men concerned. But we can't forget to boast of our present pride and joy, the company basketball team which became "champeen" of the entire Supply School under the blazing leadership of "Flashing Jack" Falsey, late of Harvard across the Charles
...established that: 1) the British might clear Athens but ELAS firmly held the rest of Greece; 2) clearing the rest of Greece would require a major operation for which Britain was neither militarily nor politically prepared. The mounting tide of blood and bitterness must be stemmed. Churchill pocketed his pride, swallowed his scorn at the ELAS "band of brigands," as he had called them in the House of Commons...
Died. Mrs. H. H. A. (Amy Marcy Cheney) Beach, 77, composer, pride of U.S. women's clubs, famed for such easily negotiable glee-club melodies as Ah, Love, but a Day, The Year's at the Spring, first woman composer to have a work per formed by the N. Y. Symphony (in 1892); of heart ailment; in Manhattan...
...Ninth squadron was the first U.S. fighter outfit to hit the Philippines. In October the Forty-niners arrived on Leyte, to base there. They could boast of having bred most of the Southwest Pacific's fighter aces, including eleven currently in action. Their biggest continuing source of pride is Major Bong, now a roving gunnery instructor who occasionally roves with his old buddies. On a sweep over Mindoro last week, Dick Bong bagged his second Jap fighter in a week, ran his score...
...branch, that the Navy meant what it said. The Navy's roster listed many a naval air reservist of captain's rank. Two former aviation reservists who stayed in after the last war were al ready respected flag officers: Rear Admiral George Henderson, Rear Admiral Alfred M. Pride...