Word: proudest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kamematsu Osada, 68, became the first to return to a California defense area since the evacuation of early 1942. He turned up in Sacramento with his proudest possession, a canary named Dick, that can whistle America. Osada was allowed to come home when his wife, a white U.S. citizen who had remained behind, fell ill. Reaction to Osada's return varied. Said one neighbor: "It isn't nice to see them loose on the streets. . . ." Said another: "One Japanese free won't be so bad." Said Osada: "I would go to war any time for this country...
...accent what was already its proudest Navy Day, the world's most colossal Navy last week told some colossal facts about its most colossal ships: the 45,000-ton Iowa and her sister battleships are the mightiest and fastest in the world, bigger by 5,000 tons than Britain's Lion, faster than Germany's 42,000-ton Tirpitz...
...Government builds and repairs theater buildings. Moscow's fantastic new Red Army Theater, which is shaped like the five-pointed Soviet Star, was built by the State to the tune of $9,090,000. The proudest two theaters in Russia, Moscow's Bolshoi and Leningrad's Kirov, were slightly damaged in the war and the State took this excuse to give them such renovation that, by comparison, New York's Metropolitan Opera House looks like an elderly duchess decked out in moth-eaten flannel underwear...
...humanitarianism. At the Churchman dinner Elder Statesman Baruch spoke words of humanitarian wisdom: "We are the most powerful nation in the world. . . . When the war is over no country will be able to improve the well-being of its people without our help. ... In another day, Cicero said the proudest boast a man could utter was 'Civis Romanus sum.' It is my prayer that our conduct may always be such as to carry greater praise in the accolade: 'I am an American...
...With bazookas, flamethrowers and Browning automatic fire they beat off frontal attacks by day, creeping infiltration by night, until the Bougainville base was finally secured. By last week they were either veterans or casualties of the jungle war and white troops were no longer reluctant to serve beside them. Proudest of their record is Major General Raymond G. Lehman, of Sleepy Eye, Minn., commander of the 93rd, who has been a Regular Army officer since 1917 and commands Negro troops because he likes to lead them...