Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Roth's second book involved the boldest sort of risk taking. Letting Go is a long, complex novel about the entanglements of two of those songless goliards, the young university instructors. It is sober and often solemn; with a self-confidence approaching bravado, Roth refused to use in it the skill at satirical pastiches that had glittered so brilliantly in Goodbye, Columbus. "I had done that," he said recently, "Why do it again...
Transit Gloria. Perhaps the boldest civic-works program on any ballot confronted the voters in three San Francisco Bay area counties. For years, San Francisco has been choking on traffic, despite a growing number of bridges and freeways. Forty-eight lanes of freeways now wind around the city, and 32 more are in the works. But city planners estimated that an additional 40 would be necessary to handle the region's projected population jump from 2,500,000 to 4,000,000 in the next decade...
...shining hour of the 87th came when it passed the best, boldest foreign trade bill in U.S. history, giving the President long-term authority to slash all tariffs by at least 50% and to remove many tariffs completely. At a time when the reciprocal trade laws born in the 1930's have been proved totally inadequate, the new bill was realistically aimed at enabling the U.S. to compete and thrive in the world's marketplace...
last week threw down the boldest chal lenge to Western oilmen since Iran's Mohammed Mossadegh expropriated the Anglo-Iranian Oil Co. in 1951. Kassem's move : the establishment of a government-owned company to produce and market Iraqi...
...civilian clothes. From September 1961 until he made it across the border, Chan was constantly on the move, sometimes staying with a sympathetic cop of the PSB, more often working for the black marketeers of Canton running gold bars, ginseng, watches and saccharin upriver to Changsha and Wuhan. His boldest act was his escape to Hong Kong. He stole a government seal, used it to stamp a letter "authorizing" him to requisition a Land Rover from a PSB motor pool. He drove to the Hong Kong border, and the PSB emblem on the car was as good as a pass...