Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Damn right and proud...
...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...country's 30,000-man military establishment is solidly behind him. So are the 8,000 remaining troops of the Organization of American States. Even more, he has 57% of the voters-including the peasantry-on his side. "Dominicans," beamed one voter after the election, "have made me proud of my country, of all of us. It's a good feeling. Now I just hope we can follow through...
Still, it was strictly an economy-class operation. Bing would have liked to have staged something extravagant, such as Aida or Turandot. Instead, the proud company was restricted to a measly six performances of two low-budget chamber operas - Rossini's Barber of Seville and Mozart's Marriage of Figaro - at the small (1,200-seat) Odeon Theater in Paris. Thus programmed, the Met's venture was bound to run into trouble...
...Lowlands and the Battle of France had begun, Germany seemed to pose a greater threat to America and the isolationist front began to waver. On Class Day in June, 1940 the entire senior class booed and hissed the 1915 Ivy orator when he said: "We were not too proud to fight in 1917," and implied that perhaps the class of 1940 lacked the necessary humility...