Word: brash
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...Hillman, a brash young man in high lace shoes, who spoke hopelessly fractured English, persuaded the strikers to ask for modest terms. This was a great accomplishment. He gained the friendship of Joseph Schaffner, who took a sudden vow to better conditions in all his factories. Finally, Sidney Hillman slipped a clause into the strike settlement calling for a permanent arbitration board, an almost revolutionary innovation in labor relations...
...newspapers. At that time almost any class of war correspondents would have voted him least likely to succeed. Aged 40, small and skinny (5 ft., 8 in., 115 lbs.), perpetually sick or worrying that he was about to be, agonizingly shy, he was completely lacking in the brash and dash of the Richard Harding Davis tradition. He had a great gift of friendship, but it was always an effort for him to meet new people and he especially disliked crowds. Neat in his habits, he hated dirt, disorder and discomfort. Above all, he hated and feared war. Except...
Father and son were both on missions at sea when the Japs struck on Dec. 7, 1941. They met in Pearl Harbor the following day. Edward said with brash confidence: "We'll blast the Jap Navy out of the Pacific in a week." Spruance unrolled a map, gave his son a lecture from which Edward retired a sobered young man. Edward, a lieutenant commander and a good officer, last week was awaiting his own submarine command...
...decided she wanted to "attend the coronation," married Lord Decies (and outlived him by four months). Quitting Paris for the U.S. when the Nazis invaded, Lady Decies continued her society shenanigans, to the edification of provincial Americans. Her bejeweled presence kept society reporters scratching for phrases to surpass the brash New York Daily News's report of her wearing a tiara "the size of a nail...
Hatched. Now bigger than the whole Corps was in 1917, Marine aviation got its start in 1911 when a brash U.S.M.C. lieutenant named Alfred A. Cunningham disturbed the serenity of the Philadelphia Navy Yard by hopping around in a rented plane ($25 a month) nicknamed "Noisy Nan." Not satisfied, he instigated among Philadelphia politicians a campaign for a Marine Corps flying field. To shut him up, the Navy offered him flight training. So the Corps's aviation division spread its wings...