Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must be imporved. Twenty of Cowan's fellow Volunteers have outlined two improvements: "The 'internationalization of the Peace Corps' has become an audible if not popular catch phrase. We do not bring to that discussion another far-reaching proposal fraught with basic difficulty, but two concrete suggestions.... Proud of the fact that PC/Ecuador pioneered in the hiring of staff members who are citizens of the host country," these Volunteers propose: (1) a Peace Corps advisory council composed of Ecuadorians, (2) more Ecuadorians in responsible staff positions. Micronesia has had a National Advisory Council since the inception of its Peace Corps...
...swept around behind the Nazis and encircled almost 300,000 of them in a giant nutcracker. As the cruel Russian winter began in earnest, temperatures fell to 49° below zero. Frozen German corpses piled up like logs, many still clad in light uniforms. German rations ran out, and proud troops began to eat the flesh of horses, cats and rats. Hermann Goring's airlift brought only a fraction of the promised relief. The city's rubble grew so high that German tanks were unable to roll over it. Through it all, Hitler insisted that his generals stand...
...into death, a skeletal zombie in a hospital chair. Alan Webb, 61, who played the 97-year-old poet in Williams' Night of the Iguana, might have been invented for this role. It is not only physical decrepitude that he conveys but also the humiliated fury of a proud, spirited and ruthless man cowed by the gradual loss of mind and authority...
Dickie: That's right. I'm proud...
Harvard students should not be too proud. They have us so well trained that even when we see all the ideals we are taught to respect and cherish broken and flaunted in our faces in our own backyard, we don't act. I refer to the manner in which Cambridge and Boston police have managed to arrest 32 people for selling Avatar without so much as a whimper from the Harvard community. What were they arrested for? For not having a peddling permit? But didn't I hear that they had tried to obtain the permits...