Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bolster false theories, of writing a prose poem, of trying to achieve an education in the process of writing a book. The fact is that a lot of the criticism was justified. It was also fact that with all of its errors of detail, the History was the boldest and most exciting effort yet made by a modern historian to chart man's troubled, inspired climb from primitive morass to a fellowship...
Schiele's paintings are anything but pleasant. His people (see color) are angular and knobby-knuckled, sometimes painfully stretched, sometimes grotesquely foreshortened. His colors are dark and murky, and his landscapes and cityscapes seem swallowed in gloom. But he painted some of the boldest and most original pictures of his time, and even after nearly half a century, the tense, tormented world he put on canvas has lost none of its fascination...
...putts when many pros would prudently try to lag up to the cup. Says Palmer: "I guess I putt past the pin more than most anybody. I always like to give it a chance. Never up, never in, you know." Says P.G.A. President Harold Sargent: "Palmer is about the boldest player on the circuit...
...real difference between Khrushchev's talk of peace and Communist Chinese practice could be seen in South Viet Nam, the non-Communist half of Viet Nam, where a nasty little jungle war has been going on almost since "peace" was agreed to in 1954. In their boldest stroke in four years, Communist Viet Minh guerrillas crept into a Viet Nam army regimental headquarters northwest of Saigon. Planting time bombs, they withdrew until the bombs went off, then charged from three sides, killed 34 soldiers, and made off with large amounts of arms and ammunition...