Word: prouder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...latest armored antitank vehicles). After the beach had been captured in a deafening final act, the President exclaimed: "Isn't that terrific!" Later, as he boarded his Washington-bound jet, the erstwhile PT-boat commander had some heartfelt parting words: "As we leave this base today, we are prouder than ever that we are citizens of the United States and supporters of these men who serve us so well...
...This is by far the most spirited team I have ever seen," insists coach Benn Merritt. "Ben Brooks (varsity coach) is proud of his team, but no prouder than I am of mine...
...week, at any time of the year, such dedicated birders journey out to the woods, thickets and swamps with binoculars at the ready. Their aim is simple: to enjoy the pure outdoorsy fun of spotting birds. The rarer the find, the prouder the birder, who rushes to seek out the nearest fellow birdsman to report his triumph. Most of these birders are among the 235,000 members of Audubon societies, which this year sent out about 10,000 people in platoons to take the 1961 bird census in 50 states. Each group covered a specific sector with a 15-mile...
...Corbusier has turned from the '"pure prism" of his youth to an architecture that is pure sculpture. Other architects, each in his own way, are searching for riches the purists would have found intolerable. "Our architecture," said the late Eero Saarinen, "is too humble. It should be prouder, much richer and larger than we see it today...
...Navy planes had prouder records in World War II than those made by Grumman Aircraft-the Wildcat and Hellcat fighters and the Avenger torpedo bomber. After the Battle of Savo Island, James Forrestal, then Under Secretary of the Navy, declared flatly: "Grumman saved Guadalcanal." In the Battle of the Marianas, which pilots called "the turkey shoot," they downed 360 Japanese planes in a single day, the record...