Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Growlers & Brash. A small West German ocean-going trawler, the Johannes Krüss, and the U.S. Coast Guard cutter Campbell turned toward the stricken ship. Another German fishing trawler radioed that she was on the way. At 3:36 came the final message from the Hedtoft: "Slowly sinking and need immediate assistance." In Newfoundland, where U.S. and Canadian aircraft were grounded or turned back by the foul weather, search-and-rescue officers estimated that anyone forced into the freezing ocean would "last just over 60 seconds...
...than anything the Coast Guard cutter had seen on convoy duty during World War II. There was one mammoth ice floe half a mile wide and 40 miles long. The boiling seas were choked with icebergs, growlers or low-riding chunks of glaciers, massive hummocks of pack ice, and brash or bits of broken pack ice. Nowhere in all that snow-swirling polar frenzy was there sight, sound or sign of the Hans Hedtoft and her freight of 95 human beings...
...found to match the punishment, and Khrushchev may well blame the U.S.S.R.'s prime economic problem -low agricultural productivity -on the antiparty men, thus satisfying two desires at once. But the rest of the world was likely to center its interest in the Congress on the report that brash, quick-witted Anastas Mikoyan had brought back from his U.S. "vacation...
Organization Man King rules by delegating authority to able associates, e.g., brash Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, ironing out differences, keeping a sharp eye on the ledger. When methodical Cecil King heard last week that a rival bid had been entered for Amalgamated, he was certain that his board of directors would up his offer as necessary, took off as scheduled for Africa, confident that he would become the King of press kings...
Most ardent believer is a brash, well-formed 15-year-old Berlin schoolgirl named Cornelia Froboess-known only as Conny-who has sold 1,450,000 records on the Electrola label this year, earned royalties of $60,000 (of which her father-manager doles out pocket money at the rate of 26? a month). Sighing with all the delicate modulation of a stricken heifer, she belts out Tin Pan Alley tunes and ersatz German approximations with equal gusto. Conny just finished her first movie, commands a following of 56 adoring fan clubs with about 10,000 members. She travels about...