Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...oracles have a way of covering themselves, and when the last relay had been run, the Huskies returned to their inner-city home as the proud owners of a 75-61 victory that had witnessed the setting of eight institutional records, five of which represented the best New England performances of the season in their respective events...
...Washington began talks with the Micronesians toward that goal. In 1976 both sides initialed a draft compact calling for a "free association" in which the islands would gain much independence and the U.S. would oversee their defense and foreign relations. Then everything fell apart because individual island groups, proud of their separate identities, wanted to strike individual deals with the U.S. The 26,000 residents of the Marshalls voted in a referendum to negotiate separately from the territory as a whole for a change in status. Now the island of Palau (pop. 13,000) wants to do the same...
Unavoidable, perhaps - but not nearly as durable. Last week Rockefeller Center's Marshall sadly admitted that the proud landmark now faces the same pathetic destiny that has over taken hundreds of other moviehouses, big and small, in recent years. By present plans it will shut down this week, reopen in March to offer its traditional Easter pageant, and then close for ever the following month. The reason, naturally, is money. The theater lost $2.2 million in 1977, and officials figure it would lose $3.5 million this year if it stayed open. The Music Hall needs to take...
...little difficult for us to try to generate proud enthusiasm for a team that knows they're not competitive," Bernal concluded, adding, "At this point we're going to begin to concentrate that effort on Princeton...
...drink, Con Melody (Jason Robards) cultivates a highly colored remembrance of things past-the Gaelic gallant seducing the lovelies of Europe, the fearless cavalry major decorated on a Spanish field of honor by the great Wellington himself. In sorry reality, he is an impoverished tavern keeper too proud to tend bar as his father did in Ireland. Indeed, pride hagrides Con Melody, like the Greek Furies, except that he is driven more toward travesty than tragedy...