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Answer for the clue "Things to wear proudly ", 6 letters:
medals

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Usage examples of medals.

But when the three sailors appeared in their freshly pressed uniforms, with ribbons neat and medals polished, she wanted to throw up.

The true reason lay deep within the psychology of the aviator: medals were awarded not on hearsay but on incontrovertible proof of performance.

They took unparalleled delight in the ribbons, the glittering medals which testified to their heroism.

Fremont, appearing with a uniformed Tim Finnerty, medals shining, and they accomplished much, but Penny kept them in the smaller towns from Monday through Thursday.

Pope had performed his combat duty with medals, and it was now assumed that he would do the same with his next obligation.

McGuigan here provided me with assistance beyond the call of duty, and I should like to hand him two medals, placed in my care by the American government.

National Airport with two suitcases of medals and mementos, Penny was there to greet him.

You may take into account the background and character of the accused, his reputation and service record, including awards, medals, conduct, efficiency, fidelity, courage, bravery, and other traits of good character.

In the presidential bedroom, which was the part of the house where he spent the greater part of his last years, we found only an unused barracks bed, a portable latrine of the kind that antiquarians removed from the mansions abandoned by the marines, an iron coffer with his ninety-two medals, and a denim suit just like the one the corpse had on, perforated by six large-caliber bullets that had left singe damage as they entered through the back and came out through the chest, which made us think there was truth to the legend going around that a bullet shot into his back would go right through without harming him, and if shot from the front it would rebound off his body back at the attacker, and that he was only vulnerable to a coup de grace fired by someone who loved him so much that he would die for him.

Major General Rodrigo de Aguilar entered on a silver tray stretched out full length on a garnish of cauliflower and laurel leaves, steeped with spices, oven brown, embellished with the uniform of five golden almonds for solemn occasions and the limitless loops for valor on the sleeve of his right arm, fourteen pounds of medals on his chest and a sprig of parsley in his mouth, ready to be served at a banquet of comrades by the official carvers to the petrified horror of the guests as without breathing we witness the exquisite ceremony of carving and serving, and when every plate held an equal portion of minister of defense stuffed with pine nuts and aromatic herbs, he gave the order to begin, eat hearty gentlemen.

It astonished Polly to find that the cheap medals and thoughtless words did, in a way, bring aid and comfort to the mothers.

And senior officers had given them medals, and watched them go with fixed, faint smiles.

A young friend whose acquaintance I had made in Rome asked me one day to come to his rooms and look at a cabinet of gems and medals which he had collected.

When Pennyloaf returned she found her husband with his box of moulds and medals on the table.

Though there appeared no necessity for the step, he insisted on their once more seeking new lodgings, and, before the removal, he destroyed all his medals and moulds.