Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State of New Jersey had no reason to feel proud of its solution of the murder of aged William Homer, Trenton junkman. For five days in February 1948, the Trenton police turned the heat on six young Negro suspects, finally.got all but one to sign confessions that they were parties to robbing old man Horner in his shop, and to beating him to death with a pop bottle...
...approve. Above the young bull's number in a thick registry book, a rider initialed in red ink the letters B.P. (for Bravo Pronto). That meant that two years later, on some Sunday afternoon, in some jam-packed arena in Latin America, the fighting animal would carry the proud red-grey-and-gold colors of La Punta...
...proud papa was Songsmith Frank Loesser, a Hollywood Tin Pan Alleyite whose specialty is producing catchy, shortlived jingles about leaky faucets (Bloop, Bleep) and slow boats to China. But Baby was not even written for public consumption. Loesser ran it off five years ago as a comedy number for himself and his wife, Lynn, to sing at parties. It was surefire when his songstress wife, with appropriate handwringing, began singing "I really can't stay . . . I've got to go 'way," and Loesser answered pleadingly, "But Baby, it's cold outside!" After that the pace picks...
...They found Joe Louis, figurehead director of boxing for boxing's new monopoly, the International Boxing Club.* Joe climbed into the ring to hand La Motta a gold championship belt (with a diamond, two sapphires and two rubies). "Nice going, Jake," said Joe. La Motta shed a few proud tears. When the receipts were counted, I.B.C. discovered it had lost $4,000 on its first major fight promotion...
...America and Transamerica found the going rough. Transamerica's stock plunged from a 1929 high of 67 to 2. But A.P., always full of optimism, kept right on expanding, and thus was ready for California's war boom. In 1945, Bank of America rose to the proud position of world's largest private bank...