Word: proclaiming
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...issues are, aptly, two who have amassed huge fortunes from the auto industry-which, say some alarmists, is ruining the nation's health by eliminating the normal healthy exercise of walking. Appropriately, Directors Alfred P. Sloan Jr., 83, and Charles F. Kettering, 82, of General Motors, both proudly proclaim that they have never taken a lick of exercise in their lives. On level ground, the farthest they walk is from office or apartment door to car or from car to plane. Up and down, "Boss"' Kettering gets a fair amount of walking because he is too impatient...
Balloons & Boots. Before De Gaulle arrived, police and Communist militants were already fighting in the side streets. Unfazed, the general earnestly began to proclaim the virtues of the new constitution, which he declared is suited "to this century and to the people we are." His voice breaking with emotion, De Gaulle shouted: "With all my heart, in the name of France, I ask you to answer oui." But over De Gaulle's head as he spoke floated a cluster of red, white and blue balloons bearing the single word...
...prey to riot and revolution. And so, swallowing its misgivings, the U.S., in its newfound determination to rid itself of the stigma of hostility to Arab nationalism, is now even implicitly committed to give vital economic aid, on his own terms, to the Egyptian dictator whose propaganda spokesmen daily proclaim his contempt for the U.S. and all its works...
Returning from Moscow, Nasser deplaned in his Syrian sub-capital of Damascus and rushed to a balcony to proclaim the Iraqi victory...
...Gaulle, perhaps the most willing of all Western leaders to talk with Russia, declared that he now saw little chance of a summit meeting this year.) All these were consequences that calculating Nikita Khrushchev obviously foresaw when he passed the death sentence on Nagy and Maleter, and chose to proclaim it. He planned it that...