Word: brashly
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Three days before he made the grammatical welkin ring, Winston Churchill was collecting an honorary degree at Columbia University. In the very home town of the American language, he was brash enough to decry the "undue reliance upon slang. In its right place slang has its virtues, but let us keep a tight hold of our own mother tongue...
...sure enough about it to bet about $10,000 on himself. Almost as big a plunger as he is a talker, brash Bobby says he offered to put the tour on a winner-take-all basis, but that Don couldn't see it. (The Budge version: Budge offered to split the profits 70-30 but Bobby preferred 60-40 because he "doesn't want to put his money where his mouth is.")* "It must be tough for Don," says Bobby sympathetically, "trying to get back...
...made no money. But Manilans took a shine to its brash love of controversy. One article stated the case for Filipinos who contended that they had had to collaborate or else. Another sailed into G.I. Joe, told him to quit criticizing the Filipinos, give them a break...
...neck & neck race between National City Bank's Charles Mitchell and Chase National Bank's Albert Wiggin for the title of the nation's biggest bank. Chase won out, via mergers with other banks, and held its lead till three months ago. Then a brash West Coast upstart, old A. P. Gian nini's Bank of America, pushed past...
...large spoonful of chili was dumped on their plates by brash, young (26) ex-Sergeant Marion Hargrove, author of the best-selling See Here, Private Hargrove. In a speech aptly called "See Here, Private Enterprise," Hargrove talked up to the N.A.M. like a Dutch nephew telling off his stick-in-the-mud uncles...