Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weather bulletins, predicting the bird movements around the clock and rating their intensity numerically from zero (for clear air) to eight (for a dense flock). The forecasts proved to be 83% accurate during the spring tests, about 70% in the fall-percentages that would make any conventional weatherman justifiably proud. They so impressed the local R.C.A.F. flight commander that he agreed to call off night training flights if the bird intensity reached a rating...
...answer: "Don't worry about being tall. Hold yourself up and be splendid." He prescribed ballet, and the medicine worked. Vanessa's grace and poise improved, and she showed her mettle in school theatricals. At 14, she played a St. Joan so powerful that her parents were awed. Says proud Papa: "The whole school revolved around Vanessa's personality...
...year history, Germany's Krupp industrial complex has often seemed as much a sovereign state as a business enterprise. Bismarck, the Kaisers and Hitler all courted the house of Krupp. Kaiser Wilhelm I called it "a national institution." Five generations of Krupps have made a proud point of imperiously waving away even bankers' questions about company finances...
...field was wide open in the U.S. Luce promised that the new magazine's purpose would be "to see life; to see the world; to eyewitness great events; to watch the faces of the poor and the gestures of the proud; to see strange things; to see and be amazed; to see and be instructed." As this language suggests, Luce himself chose the name LIFE and bought out a humor magazine of that name...
...prodigious worker who relaxes only occasionally at the theater or at his Capri villa, he is personally a conservative dresser, has only one obvious affectation: black, almost jaw-length sideburns. He is noted for shyness, except when it comes to his clients. "I have them all now," he says proudly. And his customers are just as proud that he does. Would it be all right, he asked Gloria Guinness, the woman whom Women's Wear Daily calls "the ultimate," if he told the press that she was an enthusiastic customer? "Tell them, Valentino," said she, "that...