Word: prided
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Very End." Whimsical, sometimes irascible Bill Somervell, pride of the highly professional Corps of Engineers, has been criticized for many things. He was lambasted for his snap decision in the Canol oilfield project, and for sticking to it in spite of his critics. (Operation of the $24,000,000 refinery, built with U.S. money in Canada's Northwest, began a fortnight ago-TIME, Oct. 4.) Hard-boiled and quick-tempered when the heat is on, West Pointer Somervell has long riled more ceremonious men by his disregard of red tape, his ruthless firing of officers he deems incompetent...
...bars. Skittish ones started a run on stores, buying out bandages, iodine, flashlights. A retired major began to see Japs crawling out of whiskey bottles and had to be confined as a nervous case. But everyone was sure that help was on the way. MacArthur beamed with pride over a congratulatory message from President Roosevelt: "Keep up the good work...
Conclusion: "Producers of radio serials take pride in asserting that they give their audience exactly what it wants to get. . . . The consequence of such neglect is art that fails to entertain and that misleads instead of educating; education that bores and discourages because it is dry and lifeless ; entertainment that detracts from the aims and real satisfactions of life...
After Pearl Harbor, U.S. dollars flooded into Canada for the Alcan Highway, airports, the Canol pipeline, huge purchases of grain, aluminum, etc. By early this year, Canada actually had so big a surplus of U.S. dollars that it had become embarrassing to the U.S. Administration. Canada also had her pride. Said Mr. Ilsley in the House of Commons last week: "We always felt that, as a nation , . . free from the ravages of war we were in duty bound to stand on our own feet and indeed to share with the U.S. in assisting other less fortunate of our Allies...
...them to a smart attention, and shouting "April Fool" when the Professor didn't show ... Does anyone know why Gordon Johnson keeps a pigeon on his bureau? ... And if the swing rendition of taps on the ocarina in C Entry Chase has you puzzled, blame it on Kelly Hunt, pride of the Lone Star State...