Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bevan was unabashed. The figures simply meant, he said, that more Britons needed medical care than anyone suspected. "Insofar as the figures show that suffering is being relieved," cried Bevan, "we should be proud!" Though initially reluctant, 90% of Britain's dentists and 86% of her physicians had now joined the plan. "Had they not come in," Bevan declared triumphantly, "I should not have had a deficit, but a surplus. I should have been praised by the Opposition for being a financial success-but I should have been a failure as a Minister of Health...
...country. The College itself had a disagreeable taste of this last year in the case of the anti-draft meeting in Sanders Theater. That was something most undergraduates were sorry about. The orderly attention to Gerhart Eisler Monday night, on the other hand, was something to be a little proud...
Barnard College for women, the poor, proud relation of Columbia University (endowment: $75 million) was out to improve its financial lot. Barnard, whose red brick buildings of institutional classic stand along Manhattan's upper Broadway, only a stone's throw from Columbia's city campus, has an academic reputation which only such women's colleges as Vassar, Wellesley and Bryn Mawr can equal, and a faculty (borrowing from Columbia's) that most others cannot. But last year, asking no more tuition ($700) than most other top schools, Barnard (endowment: $5,000,000) operated...
...screen for ten minutes as the flyer's wife, is on her way to stardom. A mobile face that coordinates magically with her lines enables Miss White to strip everything unessential and distracting from the heart of her role. Kieron Moore stalks sulkily as her moody, proud, and dangerous husband...
...London's choosy, space-proud National Gallery has had 18 old masters from the Gulbenkian collection since...