Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Almighty God: our sons, pride of our nation, this day have set upon a mighty endeavor, a struggle to preserve our republic, our religion, and our civilization, and to set free a suffering humanity. Lead them straight and true; give strength to their arms, stoutness to their hearts, steadfastness to their faith. . . . The enemy . . . may hurl back our forces. But we shall return again and again; and we know that by Thy grace . . . our sons will triumph...
...ahead wink to strikers. The 30.000 men (both A.F. of L. and C.I.O.) who shut down the Pacific Northwest's big lumber industry were not officially striking; they cynically called it "going fishing." And in one of the most costly strikes in the nation, a union took peculiar pride in the fact that its strike was "legal." Youthful (26) Chester Joseph Adamczyck put up posters showing that his 1,900 strikers at Parke, Davis & Co.'s two Detroit plants had complied with the Smith-Connally Act.* But their action halted production of penicillin and blood plasma...
When World War II looms, Susan tries to take her son to the U.S. But on the boat train John II (Roddy McDowell) refuses to go. ("You durn little English man," wheezes his mother, with tearful pride.) So they stay. John flirts innocently (against Tennysonian landscapes) with a farmer's daughter until it is time for World War II. Then he joins a Commando...
Last scene: When John is brought in from Dieppe on a stretcher, his mother opens the hospital window so that he may hear the band music of the newly arrived U.S. troops. With fierce pride she describes them to her dying British son: "All the strong young boys, beautiful and proud with dreams. . . ." "God will never forgive us . . ,." adds Cinemactress Dunne, "if we break faith with our dead again...
Since it went to work on July i, 1940, RID has discovered and closed 361 illegal radio stations. RID had very little left to do last year. But it could point with pride (backed by loud praise from the military*) to a solid record of detection in the Western 'Hemisphere, and even in Africa and Europe...