Word: priding
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...papers to the Hartford Times in 1917 as a copyreader. A self-taught linguist, Lindstrom makes nightly entries in diaries in six languages, frequently translates news stories into Italian, French, German, Spanish or Swedish just for the exercise. He reads multilingually and voraciously-75 books a year. He takes pride in a connoisseur's cellar of fine wines, never misses a Brigitte Bardot movie (he has persuaded himself that...
...Philippines as an Army officer in World War II, has kept close ties with the islands ever since. One of the men whose friendship Bell most cherished was the Philippines' late, loved President Ramon Magsaysay-an incorruptible statesman who never found any difficulty in combining deep pride in being a Filipino with unshakable affection...
...prissy hours washing and tidying himself like an obsessed cat. rewrites his latest "masterpiece" endlessly in green, black and red inks. His belly swings interminably between empty and half-full, but his attitude to foes and benefactors alike is unvarying: "I will take your money without a pang; my pride has nothing to do with...
According to publicity statements, Winter Carnival "is the Dartmouth student's pride and the college girl's dream." However, a number of students complained that this year's event lacked the dash and sparkle usually attributed to it. Many blamed this on the fact that they were in the midst of their studies (Dartmouth is now on a three term schedule and Carnival no longer takes place during inter-session) and that there was just not enough snow. Nevertheless, festivities have increased in scale since the first Carnival, whose purpose was "to provide the added attraction of women, something foremost...
...long enough for him to be enshrined by the islanders as something between seer and saint. On leave from his job as president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts), Clark helped found the school that was to become the outpost island's pride, its own first-rank university. Last week, as the university's 5,300 mackinawed students settled themselves on the snow-blown campus for the year's winter term, they slogged past an old landmark-a large statue of Clark-and a raw, new one: the shell of the still unfinished William...