Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Wilson spoke, but to the party's rank-and-file faithful. "This has been a rough year for all of us in this movement," he began. Then, without growing defensive about his economic policies, he proceeded to reel off streams of statistics designed to make his listeners feel proud of Labor's accomplishments. Identifying their problems with his own, Wilson observed that "we have gone through a great deal together in defense of everything we stand for." Finally, as London's Times observed, "hamming it unmercifully, but hamming it like an old trouper," he ended...
...mile journey over Canada's Great Slave Lake to the Arctic Ocean. So far the students have taken enthusiastically to the challenge. "I was really scared, admits Mary Burns, 17, after her rope slipped on a mountain climb, when I made it, I felt awfully proud of myself...
Life magazine may have shown it can take a ribbing. But it was not, as their proud ad states, a "good ribbing...
Verrett's gypsy go-go girl was proud, alluring, pantherlike, intelligent and vocally velvet. Right at the start, in the opening Habanera, she rejected the tradition that makes Carmen a menacing femme fatale. "The music of the Habanera is not heavy," she says. "It is elegant, light, playful, seductive. If Carmen is nasty all the time, who needs that kind of woman, really?" Instead, Verrett was childish, beautiful, desirable -the kind of woman other women like despite her sexual superiority. "Then when she gets angry at Don José in the third act, it's a different character...
...most dedicated Israeli feels an occasional urge for a brief respite from the anxiety. You cannot help but sense that the Israelis would be happier if everybody could get up in the morning and just for one day not have to worry about being tough or brave or proud. But this is not possible. For the restrictions that emerge from the people's strong nationalistic impulses are not those placed by the government on the people, or by some individuals on others, but rather by individuals on themselves. And no individual will allow himself a day without the tension between...