Word: priding
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...disposed of, Premier Poincare turned to electioneering pure and simple. Fervently, though at times sketching the truth, he cried: "France never formulated the idea of revanche*. . . We waited immobile and anxious before the sphinx of Destiny until the day when the Imperial Governments of Austria and Germany, drunk with pride, loosed on their peoples and ours that catastrophe which until the last minute we strove to avoid. . . . On that day of days we were free again, and we swore never to lay down our arms before we had assured the double deliverance of Alsace and Lorraine...
Doubtless the young Viceroy Faisal has learned on his two recent trips to England that El Surrah, the navel, is taboo among moderns. Last week he could point with pride to the demolition of the entire "tomb," and to the removal among the debris of El Surrah...
...perpetuate her memory in a life-like one. But that is apparently considered beyond the permissable scope of dramatized history, which is more widely reviewed than the written accounts and further gives the effect of actuality. If in the case of "Dawn" England has refused to add to national pride by premature sanction, then to it goes the greater glory of pioneering in international sportsmanship...
...University Gazette was her pride --the pride of proof-reader, editor, and guardian. On Wednesday, February 15, she was taken home from her office, threatened with death from failure of the heart; on Friday she persisted in getting up from her bed to read the proof of the Gazette. "There is nobody else to read it," she said. On Saturday morning, she died...
...decent people among the union miners have gone away. They have found other jobs or dropped the union and they'll never come back. These sort of people, who had pride in themselves, wouldn't live in these wooden shacks the union has put up. Those that are there now are the dregs and they'll stay there as long as there are shacks and handouts in return for doing nothing...