Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brash British team, togged out in a wild assortment of jumpers and striped mufflers, did their best to act like casual beginners. "Now see here," said one bobber to another as they dashed down the chute, "do you jump in first...
Unfortunately for his shrinking-violet role, Dick Neuberger accepted one speaking invitation. On the night Congress convened, he made a brash speech before the Women's National Press Club's Congressional Dinner and told some thuddingly tasteless anecdotes about his wife, Oregon State Representative Maurine Neuberger. He recalled that the Republicans had published a picture of Maurine in a bathing suit during the 1952 campaign, when she was running for the state legislature. Noting that she had gotten more votes than Dwight Eisenhower in her district, Neuberger added a quotation that he attributed to Mark Twain: "It just...
...combat at his side, and was so shot up himself that a large part of his skull is surgical silver. After the war he edited the official party newspaper, Borba, sat in the Yugoslav delegation in the U.N., and generally proved himself one of the most promising of the brash and brave young revolutionaries. He eloquently supported Tito's break with Stalin in 1948. His official biography of Tito so closely reflects Tito's thoughts that it reads more like the dictator's autobiography. "I love my country," said Dedijer, "and I love Tito." Vacant Home. Last...
Since she could not go to Harvard, Miss Abby Leach of Brockton, Mass, decided to make Harvard come to her: she persuaded three of its most eminent scholars to give her private lessons in Greek, Latin and English. It was a bold and brash decision for the 1870s, but Miss Leach did so well that she found herself a major argument for a hot crusade. If one young lady could master a Harvard education, why shouldn't others get the chance? It was perfectly obvious that never again could Harvard underestimate the powers of a woman...
Inside their gaily-colored cocoon, Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons manage to show a little life before succumbing to the extravagant boredom that surrounds them. In the opening scenes Brando almost seems convincing as the brash young general who knew he would conquer Europe, while Miss Simmons is winsome without being sticky. But by the end of the picture--and this perhaps may be a very subtle intentional change--Brando is only a powerful bore, mouthing bad aphorisms in an Old School accent, while Miss Simmons' archness has become a bit wearing...