Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...terrified that this 46-year-old geriatric case would collapse on a two-mile run and never get up, so every night I dosed myself with aspirin and liniment. In the end, I had massive shin splints and my paratrooper wings, of which I am inordinately and shamelessly proud...
...return to the pre-1967 war borders by giving the Arabs the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, the West Bank and Jerusalem--in other words, everything they want. In return, Israel would receive a guarantee of American military presence in the Sinai and the Indian Ocean. Connally was so proud of the fairness of his proposal that he made sure extra copies were distributed to Jewish organizations and communities...
...real promise Barth holds for the patient reader is not this lie about meaningful associations but the endless cleverness he applies to the stuff of language, his individual words and sentences. At times this connoisseur of puns and multiple entendres can be seen doing proud headstands behind his latest verbal tricks. Without straining too hard or setting his sights on the outrageous, he usually finds just the odd phrasing, the curious reference to spark laughter. He describes Reg Prinz, a movie director filming one of Barth's novels during Letters...
...many blacks. That is over and above the unemployed in Crossroads. It is not a highly industrialized area. At the same time, it would have cost us between 15 and 20 million to rehouse the Crossroads people. Now they are going to be housed properly and I am very proud of that. That was a real "crossroads" in the history of this country in my way of thinking if ever there...
NATIONS DON'T WORK THAT WAY. They are proud; even when they wish to change their posture they hesitate to do so publicly, admitting previous error. The PLO also gets much of its funding from radical Arab states and would only reluctantly break ranks. Finally, acceptance of Israel would be a major concession that PLO leaders want to keep as a trump card in future negotiations...