Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...greatest liturgical composer who ever lived and one of the musical wonders of the ages was Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, whose lacy counterpoint was the pride of the Vatican under Pope Sixtus V (1585-90). The best U.S. interpreter of Palestrina is an Irish-American named Father William J. Finn, former choirmaster of Manhattan's Church of St. Paul the Apostle, who has behind him nearly 50 years of high musical achievement...
...years as a city official, Supervisor McSheehy took pride in his oratorical blockbusters. He boasted that one reporter was permanently assigned to collect each day's most glaring and improbable McSheehyisms. A belligerent, charming, oldfashioned, long-winded politician who loved the sound of his own voice, McSheehy orated on & on-and was loved for his majesty of phrasing. Students of metaphor-mixing compared him to Philadelphia's famed ex-Councilman Charles Pommer, a slapdash stylist with a less subtle ear ("I have always been man enough to stand on my own two shoulders"-TIME...
Said Frantisek Nemec, the Czechoslovak Government's newly appointed delegate to liberated territories: "All of us in Occupied Europe were civilized people with national and human pride. Suddenly there came men who assumed the right to kill us like dogs in the street. That has created a very dangerous psychological mood. The people of the liberated countries will be sensitive, suspicious and unbelieving. It will require great understanding on the part of the Allies. . . . I, myself, go with the great joy of a man returning to his home. But I go with fear for what I may find...
General Eisenhower, who knows the value of a soldier's pride in his outfit, had started a new kind of deal. U.S. divisions in Normandy were named almost as soon as they were "compromised" (i.e., identified) by the Germans. By last week, Eisenhower's censors had also released the names of most of the top commanders in Lieut. General Omar Bradley's U.S. First Army. General Bradley's Army includes the V Corps, under Major General Leonard T. ("General Gee") Gerow, 1943 commander of U.S. ground forces in Britain, and the VII Corps, under crisp, enthusiastic...
...Lapham's administrative assistant, David Lewis: "We are taking up Romans' now because that Book is an exposition of the law of a Christian. There are some attorneys in the group and we decided to start there. It is a thorough going-over of self-conceit and pride."* The group, organized 14 weeks ago, began reading Romans, hoped to discuss a chapter a week. But some discussions were so long the group has only reached Chapter...