Word: pride
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Against. With equal pride, the Braves announced their haul in the big deal. From the Giants they got two hard-hitting, rifle-armed outfielders, Sid Gordon and Willard Marshall, one able-bodied shortstop, Buddy Kerr, and one nondescript pitcher, Sam Webb. Kerr and Marshall had been in Durocher's doghouse almost from the day he took over as Giants manager two seasons...
...back at the house at 7:50 a.m. for a breakfast of grapefruit-" A correspondent interrupted to ask: "Was it California grapefruit?" The man from the Federal Register said it had come from the kitchen. But Charley Ross, with an ear keenly tuned to Florida pride, was more positive. "It was Florida grapefruit," he said...
White has also given voice to a vague fear which may cling to the pride which New Yorkers take in their town, a fear which "sticks in all our heads...
...wishes were horses, beggars wad ride, And a' the warld be drowned with pride...
Blood & Cobwebs. Envy was a green-skinned wraith with a nest of snakes in its heart. Pride was a big-bosomed balloon about to burst-presumably, with pride...