Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Proud Tower, Tuchman...
...move, fellows," implored the President. "Please don't." Many wounded servicemen struggled nonetheless to sit upright as Johnson walked through the door of Walter Reed Hospital's Ward 34. "I just want to tell you how much your country thinks of you," he called out. "How proud your country is of you. How grateful your country...
...city has a school superintendent quite as embattled, aloof and well paid-$48,500 a year* as Chicago's Benjamin C. Willis, 64. An aggressive administrator justly proud of the fact that in 13 years he has added 280 new school buildings to the Chicago system and taken all of its 580,000 students off double sessions for the first time in this century, Willis by his highhandedness has gradually earned the disapproval of most of Chicago. Last week, as Willis' durable defender, the Chicago Tribune, turned against him, the school board named his successor...
Dazzled, the same writer labelled the Crimson outfield "the dynamite trio." With predictable local pride, he noted that Neville was from Winchester and Hootstein was from Brookline, But when also credited Brookline with producing Dockery, pride became prejudice. The Crimson captain is actually from Brooklyn, a pretty proud place itself...
They tell the story about New York Banker Otto Kahn. It seems he was being chauffeured to work one day when he spotted a tailor's shop displaying the proud sign MAX KAHN, COUSIN OF OTTO KAHN. Enraged, the financier stopped the car, roared into the store and ordered Non-Relative Max to take the sign down forthwith. "Yes, sir," said Max timidly. Next day, Kahn drove by again and was greeted with...