Word: priding
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That revolt could be dated roughly from October 1947, when President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights dropped a match into the dry and prickly underbrush of Southern pride and fear. Franklin Roosevelt had always been careful to keep any such brush fires from spreading. He had imposed FEPC in 1941 by executive order, as a temporary wartime measure, which had angered the South. The South had flared up over Mrs. Roosevelt's well-meaning efforts on behalf of the Negro. But F.D.R., who did more to impose federal authority on the states than any man since Lincoln...
...interrupted Strom's political career. He had had an outstanding but not distinguished record as a judge: the state supreme court reversed a higher percentage of his decisions than those of any other judge. But his record in the war was one to point to with pride. He volunteered, served with the 82nd Airborne Division, landed in a glider in Normandy, won a chestful of decorations for gallantry, transferred to the Pacific and came home a lieutenant colonel. He spun through a gubernatorial campaign against ten opponents like a maverick planetoid, and became the tenth South Carolinian governor from...
Within the DiMaggio family circle, relative batting averages are a cause of pride, but bear no relationship to the affection the members feel for each other. Bespectacled Dom is the family pet. "Oh, you ought to see him run the bases," his sister Marie says. "He's like a little rabbit." The entire family, including Joe, has been extremely pleased by the couplet that Red Sox fans have been chanting this year to the tune of Maryland, My Maryland...
...country's shortcomings, America has a most precious heritage: freedom. Not the four freedoms, or this freedom, or that one. Freedom . . . We Americans hope that some day you may find out these things. We hope against hope that some day your leaders, who take such pride in having taught you how to read, will let you decide for yourselves what to read. Only then would you be able to read such a book as this without a qualm...
...Limoges last week went art lovers and scholars from all parts of France. No one could tell them the names of the old craftsmen who had made the enamels. Working with a more than personal pride, they had turned out their work unsigned...