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Word: brashness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...shut up. Let them submit a resolution, expressing it as the sense of the Senate, that we should either declare war against Red China, or do that which would amount to open warfare against her . . . If they do not, their support of MacArthur is a mockery." Minnesota's brash Hubert Humphrey picked up the cue. "The Republican Party," he said, "has become the war party...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Action on M-Day | 4/23/1951 | See Source »

...everything grows fast, even colleges and universities can become giants within a few years. But California's oldest college has never gone in for bigness. Last week, as the University of Santa Clara celebrated its 100th anniversary, it still seemed a place apart from the rest of the brash and bustling state...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Santa Clara's 100th | 3/19/1951 | See Source »

...into the auto sales business himself. In a short time he hit on the idea of buying new cars at reduced prices at the end of the year just when the models were about to change, and selling them well under list prices. Before long his salesmen and brash advertisements were covering the Midwest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CORPORATIONS: Traveling Man | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

Lyricist Lerner's script touches up the story with such humorous byplay as a sly spoof of etiquette in a London pub on the eve of the royal wedding. It also gives Comedian Keenan Wynn a chance to shine in the double role of a brash, slang-spewing Broadway agent and the Oxford-accented twin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Mar. 12, 1951 | 3/12/1951 | See Source »

...Golda Myerson, Minister of Labor, whose daughter caused a sensation by marrying a Yemenite boy, tells how a delegation of robed Yemenite elders, their straggling side curls almost as long as their beards, came to her to complain that they could not tolerate the brash army youngsters who worked in their camp. They said soldiers had snatched their children, cut off their side curls, shaved their heads; that determined men in white coats had prodded and inspected their women, even violated the privacy of childbirth. All this, the Yemenites insisted, was against the rule...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Ingathering | 3/5/1951 | See Source »

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