Word: proudly
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...petition but was too shy or afraid to sign. Then her daughter (a student at Cambridge High and Latin) spoke up and told her to go ahead and sign; she teased her mother and told her off, and went and got her a pen to sign with. Obviously proud of her daughter, Mrs. K. then signed and invited us in to talk...
Bathtub Race. Proud as they are of Expo's success, Canadians have taxed their imaginations to make sure that their centennial will be remembered for more than the fair alone. Oil Rigger Clint Shaw, 25, is demonstrating his patriotism by roller-skating 4,000 miles eastward from Victoria to Newfound land. Teams of Canadians dressed in the garb of the early fur traders are paddling from Alberta to Expo in a 3,300-mile canoe race. Later this month, 200 Canadians will race across the Georgia Strait near Vancouver in seagoing bathtubs fitted with outboard motors...
...Proud as he is of Hamburg's 289-year operatic history, Liebermann is a manager who "hears ahead," in the words of one of his singers. Appropriately, six of the seven productions presented by the Hamburgers at the Met were written in the 20th century (as was a quarter of their entire repertory). "The moral and democratic responsibility of a music-theater manager," says Liebermann, "is to confront the public with its own times," not to preside over "an old, stinky museum...
Michigan modernized its constitution four years ago, but the proud old traditions of initiative and referendum survived the streamlining. Dating from the turn of the century and designed to prevent high-handed legislatures from disregarding the will of the people, initiative-referendum provisions exist in nearly half the states. Such clauses can occasionally produce some unintended results, as Michigan has discovered in a case that recently came-quite literally-to light...
...That's an elephant, isn't it?" grinned Patrick Nugent. Proud and nervous, Pat announced to reporters at Austin's Seton Hospital that upstairs his wife Luci had just given birth to an 8-lb. 10-oz. son, the President's first grandchild. Name: Patrick Lyndon...