Word: brash
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...well-balanced and thoughtful the article on Harvard and President Pusey seemed to me to be? [It was] interesting without being brash, and useful to the country without being propaganda...
Their trip was an outrageously brash performance, but it got results of a sort. In Frankfurt, Cohn charged that Theodore Kaghan, in the U.S. High Commissioner's Public Affairs Division, had "once signed a Communist Party petition." Kaghan jeered at Cohn & Schine as "junketeering gumshoes." Two weeks later, Kaghan was called home by the State Department and fired...
...April, when the body of plump, pretty Wilma Montesi, 21, was found on the seashore sands of Ostia, near Rome, clad only in a blouse and a pair of silk panties embroidered with teddy bears (TIME, Feb. 15). Police declared that Wilma had died by accidental drowning. Months later, brash young neo-Fascist Editor Silvano Muto printed a sensational charge in his monthly magazine Attua-lita. Wilma had not gone to Ostia, he said, but to a swank hunting lodge in nearby Capocotto, where wild orgies were conducted by a Roman nobleman who ran a narcotics ring. Wilma, said Attualita...
...Maine, the whole state is talking about the Jones boy. Young (32), brash Robert L. Jones, once a big noise in the state Young Republican organization, announced that he will run against U.S. Senator Margaret Chase Smith in the Republican primary next June. Most political observers are less interested in Candidate Jones than in the man they believe is behind him: Joe McCarthy. The Wisconsin Senator has neither forgotten nor forgiven Senator Smith's 1950 "declaration of conscience" attacking McCarthy's methods. Last November, when McCarthy spoke in Bangor and Portland, Jones was at his side...
...American feeling against the Colossus of the North. Though the Latin statesmen for the most part could see the intellectual force of Dulles' arguments, the fact was that deep in their hearts many of them resented such forceful U.S. leadership. Emotionally, they were prepared to cheer any David brash enough to give Goliath a symbolic kick in the pants...