Word: brash
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...from channel to channel until he found a newscast. Again Joe heard the statement put out a few hours before at the White House by his latest victim. Secretary of the Army Robert Stevens, with the "100% approval" of the President of the U.S. The Senator heard his own brash characterization of the Stevens statement as "completely false." He waved...
...with his boundless vigor and good health, his steel nerve, brash confidence and the support of the vast majority of his people, Ramon Magsaysay was one man who was not afflicted with doubts or fears. "The people," he vowed, "will have their...
...Army's basic training, was filmed to the tune of a flag-waving theme song (Take the high ground and hold it! Tho' you face eternity . . .). The raw recruits who are to be turned into soldiers include such familiar characters as the bragging Texan, the brash college boy, the sensitive Negro and the weakling. Happily, the picture spares moviegoers another movie version of the Brooklynite. Richard Widmark barks his way through the role of the tough sergeant, and a curious attempt is made to give him an extra dimension by having him quote from Edna St. Vincent Millay...
Featured in the cast are Robin Homet '54 as Tommy Turner, the bewildered English professor; Pirie M. Tuchings '54 as Joe Ferguson, the big brash football hero; Tom Gaydos '54 as Ed Keller; Wendy Goodell as Ellen Turner and Lucy Barry as Patricia Turner. Director will be Ted Gershuny '54 and Peter L. Shoup '55 will produce the show...
...Ambassador Anatoly Lavrentiev, 49. When he went to Belgrade as ambassador in 1946, Marshal Tito was the prize exhibit in the Kremlin's gallery of satellite chiefs, and Diplomat Lavrentiev was in a cushy spot. Then Tito made his break with the Kremlin. (Shortly before the break, a brash Yugoslav diplomat asked Foreign Minister Molotov: "Why have you sent us such a stupid ambassador?" Replied Molotov: "Lavrentiev may be stupid, but he is a very good Bolshevik.") When Lavrentiev came to Iran as ambassador only five weeks ago, the Communists were riding high, and Moscow seemed...