Word: bold
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...daring Dane beat Denmark's state radio monopoly with Europe's first illegal maritime transmitter way back in 1958. He was copied by a handful of Swedes, Norwegians and Dutchmen, but it was left to the bold and buccaneering nation that fathered Sir Francis Drake and Captain Kidd to make pirate radios into big business and a national British pastime to boot. From creaky ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit, impudent stations such as Radio Caroline and Radio London blast out the siren songs of the Beatles...
Last week Britons were shocked by the murder of one pirate captain bold, while another was charged with the crime. Amid the uproar, it even seemed possible that Harold Wilson's government would retaliate by shutting down all the other pirate radios as well...
...newly opened middle ground of Germany, the debate over Russian-imposed partition acquired new dimensions last week, in a bold speech by a key West German politician. With the unprecedented TV exchange between East and West Germany less than a month away, Christian Democratic Majority Leader Rainer Barzel, 42, outlined in the U.S. a blueprint for German reunification that went far beyond Bonn's customary frozen position...
Unhappily for Cuesta, he and his bold little band had walked right into one of Cuba's biggest states of alert since the Bay of Pigs. All around the island, armed troops and civilians alike were watching coastlines, spotter planes were poised for takeoff and Havana radio was crackling with a call to arms -as part of a new Castro effort to cook up a crisis with...
...Eleanor Donnelley Erdman dormitory, which opened in time for this year's Bryn Mawr undergraduates to move in, is also an exercise in bold geometry. The dormitory lies in plan as three interconnected lozenges. Inside its concrete and native-slate-sided battlements, it resembles a happy dungeon whose lofty towers admit a deluge of daylight. For its parapeted roof line and labyrinthine interior, he turned to Scottish castles, which he admires for their great center halls surrounded by thick walls hollowed out to make staircases and small rooms. The results made one student gasp, "Every angle hits...