Word: bracingly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bleater emits a "pia" like the cry of a newborn roe; it also trills a realistic "fiep," simulating the call of a doe in rut. The bleater instruction sheet suggests that the hunter render the fiep with "trembling hands," then promptly swing his gun to his shoulder and brace himself for the charge of a romantic roebuck...
LAXDALE HALL (301 pp.)-Eric Linklater-Harcourt, Brace...
...Orly Field in Paris, the Defense Minister of France led the five-star general to a brace of microphones. Said Rene Pleven: "France will always keep in her heart the memory of what you have done for her liberation." Responded the general: "There is nothing to be afraid of . . . You have real friends across the sea . . . Never forget that." With obvious emotions, Dwight Eisenhower grasped the hand of one of his co-founders of the European defense force. Then he swung up the ramp behind Mamie Eisenhower, waved his cap from the door of the Air Force Constellation, smiled...
WISE BLOOD (232 pp.) - Flannery O'Connor-Harcourt, Brace...
...some 200 bootleg stills in the glen, and smuggled their spirits to the Lowlands rather than pay duty to His Majesty's revenue officers. Highland hijackers waylaid Glenlivet's pony trains as they packed legal whisky over the craggy hills to Perth and Edinburgh. George Smith, a brace of loaded pistols strapped to his waist, protected the trains in person. By 1871, Glenlivet was the only still in the glen...