Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Beatles proud with your magnificent cover story on them, but you also did yourself proud by printing the article when you did. Most national magazines rushed out hastily written copy on them when the Beatles burst on the music scene, but you waited until they reached the zenith of their genius before doing a write-up. I am glad you did. GAIL LYNN LARSEN Lombard...
...Great Dissenter" for so often taking the opposition viewpoint in class discussions on almost any subject. But if he developed an independent political attitude at Hawthorne, he also discovered an independent attitude toward himself. Says Alexander Orr, who founded the school with his wife: "He was solid, happy, and proud to be a Negro...
...five-piece tuxedoed orchestra began to play the old marching song, For Boston, For Boston, We Sing That Proud Refrain, and the clerk, in his old-fashioned salt-and-pepper wool suit and scruffy black shoes, shuffled on down to the dance floor to join the jigging mob. The mood at Hicks headquarters was one of vindication and of cockiness, a feeling not too familiar to the people there...
...there is the boom itself. "More and more people are getting fed up with it," Shurcliff comments, referring to boom tests being conducted over selected cities. He has received only four letters in favor of sonic booms--one from a man who wrote that the loud noise "made him proud to be an American." League members are urged to write their Congressmen and local newspapers, and Shurcliff feels that "the tide will run more strongly in our favor." The problem is that the longer it takes for the tide to turn, the smaller the chances are that this particular tide...
...virtually ending the Spanish-American War, Baruch spent July 4, 1898, on the cable buying U.S. stocks in the London market. Next day he made a neat profit when the New York Stock Exchange reopened following the holiday and prices shot upwards on word of the victory. Baruch was proud to have been a speculator, but he cringed at the implications the term came to carry. "Modern usage," he noted in a 1957 autobiography, "has made the term 'speculator' a synonym for gambler and plunger. Actually the word comes from the Latin speculari, which means...