Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...News Is Coming Soon." The news came all too soon for once-proud Britain. After a week in which the long agony of the British pound reached a writhing climax, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government announced a cut in the pound's exchange value from $2.80 to $2.40-a 14.3% devaluation...
...Once Proud Workshop. How did Britain, where the Industrial Revolution was born, fall to such a beggar's estate among the industrial nations of the world? There is scarcely a segment of British society or an element of British tradition that is not in some way responsible for the impoverishment of the once proud workshop of the world...
Soyinka, 33, has no complexes of self-consciousness about being an African. While fond and proud of his Nigerian heritage, he has small use for such concepts as "negritude." "Does a tiger feel his tigritude?" he asks. A member of the cultured and sophisticated Yoruba tribe, he was educated at the University of Ibadan and the University of Leeds in England. He has worked for London's Royal Court Theater as playwright, actor and producer, and taught English literature at the University of Lagos...
...student who plans to become an engineer, the youngster currently is being courted by recruiters from no fewer than six colleges: Southern Methodist, Texas, Texas A. & M., Texas Christian, Baylor and Navy. All of which makes his father-who was once a pretty fair country ballplayer himself-immensely proud. The boy's name: Kyle Rote...
...Although proud of their country's democratic approach to higher learning, many Japanese scholars lament the loss of the universities' prewar intimacy, when there was close student-professor contact, more emphasis on moral guidance than career-oriented degree-granting. Schools today, complains Tokyo University President Kazuo Okochi, are "producing a lot of young graduates who do not have enough self-consciousness or sense of human values." Like the U.S., Japan has discovered that overcrowding and impersonality are part of the price a nation has to pay for mass higher education...