Word: braced
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Some would suggest it was a silly question to bother her with, at this stage in a brilliant career; a little like pestering a star athlete who has led his team to a brace of championships about his religious preference. National Guard Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer had earned a Bronze Star for supervising a hospital during the Vietnam War; in 1985 the Veterans Administration named her Nurse of the Year over 34,000 other candidates; and most recently, she had served as chief nurse of the Washington National Guard. But somebody's curiosity got the better of him: during a security...
...Reconstruction. Yet Gill's road would not have been paved had he and other Chilton County blacks not voted for Agee seven times apiece -- legally. It was an act that, radical or not, put them in the vanguard of a ballot-casting experiment called cumulative voting, one of a brace of methods hailed by some as the future of suffrage but labeled antidemocratic by no less an authority than Bill Clinton...
...Hampshire. Arriving penniless as refugees in New York in 1941, Wolff and her husband Kurt founded Pantheon Books within a year, aided by their Continental credits (Kurt was the first publisher of Franz Kafka) and Helen's command of several languages. At Pantheon and later under the Harcourt Brace Jovanovich imprint "A Helen and Kurt Wolff Book," she introduced Americans to Boris Pasternak, Gunter Grass and Umberto...
Well, if you're one of those--and there are many--who say that the Harvard men's basketball team (8-12 overall, 4-4 Ivy) needs its wondrous freshman forward back this weekend to stand any chance against League leaders Penn and Princeton, brace yourself...
...Jump, by Ellen Stoll Walsh (Harcourt Brace; $13.95). A froggy first book for bouncing preschoolers, the title pretty much sums up the plot, until an unusually balletic frog (blue with spots, to distinguish her from ordinary green-with-spots plodders) teaches her pondmates to dance. Read me the frog book, Daddy...