Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...spring night, the luminous spires of the Temple of the Emerald Buddha seem to float over Bangkok scarcely touched by the blare of traffic, the neon slashes of bars and the ragged hurly-burly of mainland Southeast Asia's largest city. So too does the Kingdom of Thailand, proud heir to virtually seven centuries of uninterrupted independence, seem to soar above the roiling troubles of the region all around it. Neighboring Laos is half in Communist hands, Cambodia hapless host to the Viet Cong, Burma a xenophobic military backwater. The Chinese talons are less than 100 miles away, North...
...Vital Core. For the Thais, proud and sensitive to any hint of interference by farangs or foreigners in their national life, the enormous U.S. buildup is a painful concession to the grim facts of Southeast Asian life. They talk about it as little as they can, admit virtually nothing officially, and have carefully made only gentleman's agreements, one at a time, for U.S. use of their bases. The U.S. in turn respects Thai feelings by trying, as one official puts it, to present a "low silhouette" on the Thai landscape. But inevitably, with the growing accumulation of American...
Writing prose as mauve as he does, it's no wonder that Novelist Irving Stone, 62, is salting away some of the profits from his biographical fiction against the day when his muse gets too flushed to continue. Now he's the proud landlord of a new $210,000 U.S. Post Office building in Sacramento, Calif., a fairly common circumstance these days, with the Post Office Department leasing many of its stations. The investment will enrich his royalty pile by $15,000 a year. Cracked Assistant Postmaster Gene Gibham, "If something goes wrong with the plumbing...
...frescoes. Even his lush-thighed Pomonas, named for the ancient Italian goddess of fruit trees, seem like the petrified victims of the last days of Pompeii. But as currently displayed in Rome's 500-year-old Palazzo Venezia, at one time the residence of the ambassador of the proud Venetian Republic, the hefty nudes look like steaming courtesans in the Baths of Caracalla...