Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...abducted youth did not seem to fit the mold of either his father or his fiery grandfather and namesake "Mr. Sam" (who shrewdly built the family fortune but sometimes hurled dishes when angry). Young Sam has seemed a bit brash and arrogant to outsiders, but friends at Williams found him "relaxed" about his wealth and "even-tempered." No jet-setter, he was interested primarily in sport. Strong and wiry (6 ft. 3 in., 185 Ibs.), he had played tennis and basketball at Williams and possessed an encyclopedic mind for sport trivia. He had been looking forward to starting work...
...Finley's ideas are not brash enough, he peddles them with a pitchman's flair. When he wanted to press for adoption of the orange ball at one league meeting, he showed up wearing a traffic cop's phosphorescent orange glove. Every time he wanted to talk, he waved the glowing glove over his head...
...fact his parents named him for Shakespeare's Othello. Since his family lacked money for acting lessons, he joined the army instead. He served for five years in Angola and for three in Guinea-Bissau under Spínola, who, in a never forgotten slight, excluded the brash young captain from his inner circle of trusted officers...
...that would yank people out of phone booths and throw them out on their ear if he wanted to call headquarters. And while we were supposed to like him, his temper--the man pounding furiously on the expressionless subway door with his prey smug inside, and his brash lack of cool was supposed to make things more subtle. But it never really worked. When anti-heroin crusader Doyle busts a bellboy for a joint in his back pocket the filmmakers are testing the audience's sympathies too much. And all was subservient to the immortal Chase...
...Later, in his native Alabama, Durr defended Mrs. Rosa Parks, a seamstress, whose 1955 arrest for violating Montgomery's bus segregation ordinance became a landmark in the struggle for integration. ∙ Died. Leroy "Buddy" McHugh, 84, legendary police reporter; of heart disease; in Chicago. Last survivor of the brash Chicago press corps depicted in The Front Page, McHugh used every ploy to scoop competitors: posing as a coroner to get privileged information, hiding behind police sergeants' desks and answering their phones. Though he reported some 700 murders, McHugh's greatest coup came in 1952 when he filed...