Word: prouder
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Diefenbaker alighted from his Canadian Air Force transport at London Airport with a preconference statement as reassuring to Britons as Big Ben's chimes. "I can think of no prouder opportunity to which a newly elected Prime Minister of Canada could be summoned," said he. The British seemed exhilarated by the prospect of a fresh Canadian voice in the Commonwealth family. To Diefenbaker as Prime Minister of the senior Dominion, and to Ghana's beaming Nkrumah, representing the newest member of the family, went the public's warmest cheers...
...they posed together for news photographers at the Michigan State Fair in Detroit, it was not easy to tell who looked prouder, Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson or Windrow Helene, his prize four-year-old cow. Windrow Helene, who produced 10,658 Ibs. (4,956 qts.) of milk in 305 days, was crowned grand champion female of the Ayrshire breed...
Last week, as his boys were planning for this fall's fairs and shows, P.D. could not help feeling proud of their financial accomplishments. "But we're prouder still," says he, "of what they turn out to be-aggressive, intelligent rural leaders, the kind who can cope with the increasingly difficult problems in agriculture today. No boy, no matter what his background, should be denied the privilege of becoming a small independent businessman...
...proposing is that France recognize itself as a second-class power, but an honest one. Free of the need to keep up a front. Frenchmen will be relieved of the nagging of creditors, the sneers of critics, the exhortation of friends. Henceforth, they might seem poorer-but feel prouder. Did this mean that Mendès is longing for the illusory place on the sidelines labeled "neutralism"? Mendès denies it. "Let us have no illusions. No imaginable policy could enable us to escape if, unhappily, a new war were to break out... National defense is imperative...
...turned to the more serious cards. Ah--there was a nice pastel peacock on a modernistic looking one. But--"Than a peacock I'd be prouder, If you'd shout I love you louder." One more try, Vag resolved. If I don't find something now, hell with it. He opened "This valentine is guaranteed. . " and then groaned slightly when a pop-out gorilla leered at him with the inscription, ". . . to scare the YELL out of you." I guess I'm just too old to appreciate these things any more, Vag mumbled as he hunched under his tweed overcoat...