Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Unlike the roach, it is an epicure: it feeds on human blood. A loathsome, wingless insect, it is light brown and flat before feeding, swells up and turns mahogany afterward. Chief difficulty in fighting bedbugs : housewives hate to admit their presence. Though the common bedbug hurts little except family pride, a relative known as the "kissing bug" transmits Chagas' disease (a deadly parasitic disease originating in Brazil) to human beings. A Lethane spray is the most effective bedbug poison...
...Author. Since settling (1938) in California, where climate and treatment have helped his ailing eyesight, Aldous Huxley has collaborated on two cinema scripts (Pride and Prejudice; Jane Eyre), written five books. Now 51, he lives with his wife Martha on a lonely ranch near Llano in the Mojave Desert, 80 miles from Los Angeles. "The only social life,"he says, "is with the cows." The Huxleys' son Matthew, 22, is a reader for Warner Bros...
...student veterans at the University of Southern California, some of them in their third semester. From the start they have had trouble with the fraternities. To many of them fraternity folderol seemed childish, fraternity members immature. They formed their own club, the Trovets (Trojan Veterans).* Fraternity pride was deeply hurt. At first the fraternities tried to control the Trovets, since then have been openly hostile to it. On several occasions notices and reports of Trovet meetings submitted to The Daily Trojan have been "somehow misplaced...
...long history of warfare good outfits have disintegrated before, but seldom has their commander swallowed his pride enough to tell the whole story. Last week, in an official report, frank, honest "Uncle Joe" Stilwell did just that. He told the world what it was going to find out in the long run, anyhow...
...were still in the running on the Adriatic flank. In three weeks they had advanced 30 miles up the coast. Last week they snatched Ancona from two German divisions. Ancona's port-handy for Yugoslavia-was stoppered, like Leghorn, with wrecked ships. Among them: the Ida, 498-ton pride of passionate yachtsman ex-King Vittorio Emanuele...