Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that time, brash Bill Proxmire had had about enough. He took his seat-while Johnson delivered a devastating last word. The best living example of a Senate leader's problems, he said, had "just sat down...
...modern army base outside Mexico City, steel gates clanged shut on more than 1,000 railroad workers one night last week. Troops guarded stations, and the government-owned railways sent out a call for strikebreakers to man the trains. After two tries at dealing with Demetrio Vallejo, 45, the brash, baby-faced new leader of the Railway Workers Union, President Adolfo López Mateos set out to crush...
Shuddering millions may or may not recognize this nightmare as a remake of Boris Karloff's film classic, The Mummy. Whether they do or not, the sixth straight gals-and-ghouls movie (and 59th film) turned out by Britain's brash little Hammer Film Productions Ltd. is sure to be boffo all over the world. Last week Hammer's short, hard, bright boss. Colonel* Jimmy Carreras, 49, knocked the bung out of yet another barrel of blood: he gave Britons a fresh and frightening look at Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Hound of the Baskervilles...
...Brash Kid." The eldest son of a Russian immigrant factory worker, Sam Newhouse got his first chance at turning a profit from publishing as a 16-year-old clerk for a New York judge. When the judge got control of the floundering Bayonne (N.J.) Times, he gave Newhouse a try at running the show. Within a year Newhouse had whipped the Times into the black ("I guess I was a pretty brash kid"). In 1922 he drummed up $98,000 and bought the Staten Island Advance...
...Away. "We do not wish," Touré had said, "to settle our fate without France or against France." But De Gaulle at first was quite willing to carry on without Guinea. Paris announced that all French functionaries would be withdrawn within two months. Toure's brash reply: Remove them in eight days. While French shopkeepers and businessmen stayed on, 350 officials and their families began moving out. French justice stopped. A ship heading for Guinea with a carload of rice went to the Ivory Coast instead. Radio Conakry temporarily went off the air. The Guineans charged that the departing...