Word: pridefully
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...departure a fortnight before. There was disappointment in that mood: the number of airplanes being shipped to England was not 700 a month, as predicted last spring, nor 600, nor 500, nor 400, nor 300. The total was 177 to England, 102 to Canada. The shock to the national pride, if to nothing else, was acute. Men might rage or despair or work furiously, but they couldn't seem to get planes to Britain. Even the 279 planes were 75 more than had been shipped in September. And the President had evidently altered his 50-50 rule-of-thumb...
Ever since the Pilgrim Fathers fell first on their knees and then on the aborigines, the American Indian has been pictured not only as a shiftless ne'er-do-well but as a decadent, dying race. Many a generation of U. S. schoolboys has been taught a stern pride in the taking off of such die-hards as Rhode Island's King Philip...
...just completed from Sidi Barrani back to bases in Libya, Italy's Army of the stagnant Egyptian invasion ran for its life. Along an Albanian road hugging the cliffs spectacularly from Porto Edda to Valona, built by the Italians during the last war and subject of great engineering pride with them, Italy's Army of the reversible Greek invasion made further headway backwards. The Italians were so completely on the run that Adolf Hitler and Joachim von Ribbentrop were also reported on the highroad toward Rome, to speak to their little brother of the Axis...
Since the U. S. became concerned with defense of the hemisphere, it has tried to promote the building of naval and air bases in Uruguay to protect the River Plate-and with it the whole rich east coast of South America. But Argentina's pride and the bugaboo of Yanqui Imperialism have operated against a U. S.-Uruguay deal...
...able to get Catholic churches to pray not for victory but "for our soldiers." The prayer also included a pointed reference to Saint Conrad of Parzham, a Bavarian monk whom Pope Pius XI canonized in 1934 as an example of deep humility as opposed to Naziism's "racial pride which is neither Christian nor human." In Munster, the massive, adroit bishop, Count Clemens August von Galen, instead of telling his diocese to pray for victory, ordered daily recitation of the prayer: "Lord, grant us peace! Queen of Heaven, pray...