Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thousands in America than to kill the starving millions elsewhere in the world; an isolationist believes that not everyone in the free world wants the U.S. to play mother hen, a role that we have played miserably since World War II. I guess I'm an isolationist, and proud...
...addition to being a walking contradiction in terms-a Met slugger -Jones has another proud distinction. He is one of the few players in major-league history to be a righthanded batter and a lefthanded thrower. He came by his aberration honestly, while growing up in Mobile, Ala., the town that also produced Satchel Paige, Hank Aaron, Willie McCovey, Billy Williams and Met Teammate Tommie Agee. "We played stickball when we were kids," he explains, "and there was this porch on the first-base side. If you hit the ball up there it was lost, and it wasn...
...likely, was what prompted Barreiros and his brothers to resign, though they still retain about 22% of the stock. Without them, Chrysler may find the going harder in a land where personal contacts and government good will mean much in business. The Barreiros case will probably scare off other proud Spanish businessmen from making big deals with the cool and wealthy Americans...
...rich, gigantic industrial machine for cranking out textiles. By contrast, Birmingham then seemed outmoded. It was "a muddle of oddments," where myriad small firms busily made saddles, harnesses, tools, buttons, guns, jewelry, papier-mâché trays. What happened? When other cities began producing their own textiles, proud Manchester withered. But, Jane Jacobs delightedly points out, poky Birmingham's underlying diversity allowed it to adapt creatively to changing technologies and markets...
...dullwitted, conventional, sword-swinging Victor Mature hero pitted against the Minotaur-seen as a poet-victim being set upon for his incendiary ideas. In a chapter of Cronopios and Famas, he offers Hamlet as a man obsessed with finding a five-leaf clover-a quest worthy of his proud and exceptional nature...