Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Under command of Brigadier General Frank D. Merrill, they were formed into the 5307th Composite Unit (Provisional), a name more appropriate to a laundry battalion than to a detachment trained to fight far behind the Japanese lines in Burma. TIME-LIFE Correspondent James Shepley salved the unit's pride by christening it "Merrill's Marauders...
Langer relates with a good deal of pride the map room rigged up for the President and the Joint Chiefs of Staff by OSS. Still operating today, "it is one of the most impressive things to come out of the war," according to Langer. Using the latest methods in cartography, these clay relief maps with exaggerated elevations and terrain markings in paint proved most helpful to the armchair generals...
...later issue of the Century, Samuel Terrien, professor of Old Testament at Union, maintained that MacLeish's J.B. is an entirely different character from Job. The Bible's Job "shouts his pride, shrieks his blasphemy, and fights with a God who eludes his attacks." By comparison, Terrien finds MacLeish's J.B. "emasculated." He is merely "the diseased victim of fate, who hardly, if ever at all, rises above the level of intellectual stupor and spiritual impassivity...
When Mayor McNamara welcomed the Cambridge Civic Symphony on the occasion of its debut in Sanders Theatre last night, he voiced the justifiable pride of a Cantabridgian in this important even for the community. As President Pusey, who followed the Mayor, observed, civic symphonies are spreading throughout the country, and Cambridge, as a "center of high civilization" has been long overdue for one of its own. To everyone's relief and pleasure, the orchestra proved in its first concert to be a very fine one, capable of handling major works in an assured and professional fashion...
Conant said that a state "academic inventory" would "furnish the facts upon which parental action at the local level will be based." He counted on knowledge of the schools' quality to stimulate local pride and inter-city competition...