Word: proudly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Life Fulfilled. Inside the Rotunda, President Richard Nixon reflected on the satisfaction of a life fulfilled. "He restored calm to a divided nation," said the President. "He gave Americans a new measure of self-respect. He invested his office with dignity and respect and trust. He made Americans proud of their President, proud of their country, proud of themselves." Said Nixon: "He came from the heart of America. And he gave expression to the heart of America, and he touched the hearts of the world...
...most illustrious son. For the burial, official decoration was modest, consisting of small flags hung on lampposts. Most stores put up signs saying "Closed in respect to Dwight Eisenhower." Such restraint, as TIME'S Chicago Bureau Chief Champ Clark noted, "does not mean that they were not proud of him or that they did not admire him tremendously. They did, both as the famous home-town boy and as a reflection of their own down-to-earth values. When Ike died, they reacted in their...
...competence under fire. Now, with only about 10 days left of his active-duty tour as an Airman First Class, Patrick Nugent landed in Austin, Texas, to an enthusiastic greeting from Wife Luci and about 100 friends and relatives, including Lyndon Baines Johnson. "Marvelous, marvelous, marvelous," the proud father-in-law repeated, and occasionally prompted Grandson Lyn, almost 2, into a snappy salute. Said Lynda Bird: "I'm just so glad we have one of our boys home." Her boy, Marine Major Charles Robb, is due back late this month...
...began to work in series, the first of which was "Agricola": graceful totems made from bits of old agricultural implements salvaged from barnyards. He was immensely proud of the fact that his grandparents had been pioneers and thought of these shards of pioneers' tools as belonging "to my grandfather and thus...
...Proud Zigs. As the works grew more monumental, Smith experimented with bright enamels to keep his monuments joyful. Color endows three flat, empty-centered "Circles" with dashing zest. Enamels brighten the statuesque "Zig" (for Ziggurat) series of tilting or semicircular sheets of steel. Nature itself is meant to tint the burnished-steel "Cubi" series. "I polish them," Smith explained, "so that on a dull day they take on a dull blue or the yellow glow of an afternoon...