Word: brashly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...individual, Sloan's hero is a quietly brash, intellectually aloof fighter compulsively plotting the means to exploit the corruption and stupidity of the "midgets" he has been deployed to defend. For him, the war is no more than a hastily-built bureaucratic contraption within which the warrior must eke out a petty and sadistic existence profiteering promotions, medals, and love-making. Wry but bitter, Sloan's hero constantly visits the base's dentist while worrying about continual gonorrhea, and enjoys pissing into the flak around his helicopter gunship. Amid the war's psychic viciousness the hero maintains his uneasy sanity...
...sensational career as a prosecuting attorney in 1940, he sought the Republican nomination. Dewey stumped the nation, headed into the Philadelphia convention as the favorite. But no one had ever leaped from D.A. to presidential candidate, and the party's old pros could not accept the brash, young (38) Eastern upstart. They turned instead to an older, more personable novice: Indiana's Wendell Willkie...
...Manhattan Room, Vincent Lopez, Ozzie Nelson and Harriet Milliard. However, the Jack the Ripper-style murders have been luridly updated to include quite nasty details of sexual mutilation. As was the case with The Anderson Tapes last year, the book is just seedy enough to seem realistic and just brash enough to hold common sense at bay for 200 pages. For most addicts that is enough. The publisher's promotion department thoughtfully circulated-as a teaser ad in New York papers-the supposed number (212-679-2730) of the murderer. More than 115,000 gullible people tried to phone...
McGovern's candidacy must be rated as a brash swim against a powerful tide. Aside from Muskie's numerous advantages-including national recognition and a mid-party stance-there are other problems for the shy-looking plainsman. What his admirers regard as a pleasing, low-key image comes across to others as a lack of dynamism and popular appeal that could be fatal. His showing in polls last year was poor. A move by Ted Kennedy would probably eclipse him. Then there are the other Senate prospects: Humphrey, Birch Bayh, Henry Jackson and Harold Hughes, who form...
...year sentence for a restaurant holdup when a prison chaplain tried to channel his ferocious aggressions into boxing. Under the guidance of the mob, he won all but one of his first 34 matches and in 1962 took the heavyweight title from Floyd Patterson. "The Big Bear" lost to brash young Cassius Clay in 1964 when he failed to answer the seventh-round bell and a year later lost to Clay again in a 102-second title bout in which he was felled by a "phantom" righthand punch that many ringside observers thought not strong enough to be a knockout...