Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...L.B.J. Humphrey, 54, and Johnson, 57, are a pair of old prairie Populists with a common rural background, the instincts of teachers and a shared, lifelong devotion to the New Deal. When they arrived in the Senate on the same day in 1949, Humphrey was generally regarded as a brash young radical, a "black knight," as he puts it, intent on tilting against the senatorial establishment ruled by Democrat Richard Russell and Republican Robert Taft...
Shuman was a bit too slight for the brash young contractor he portrayed. his acting was more strained than the others'. He became too agitated in some of Mick's speeches which should be played with a biting, deadpan humor. But his carriage was properly deadpan--a slump-shouldered, flat-footed walk. And most essential, he captured Mick's love for his brother, reflected in the abrupt concerned, slowing down of his speech whenever the bewildered Davies took one of the younger brother's fanciful harangues as an attack on Aster...
...wandering warrior-knight who rights for pay in the feudal feuds of llth century Europe, winds up under William the Conqueror in the thick of the slaughter at Hastings. Author Holland, who writes history as if her hero were watching it happen, en-capsules the medieval military mind: brash as plunder, elemental as blood...
...Abubakar himself was widely respected as a man who sought to bring the feuding regions together. He was also one of the continent's leading moderate statesmen, opposed equally to colonialism and to Kwame Nkrumah's brash brand of African nationalism. But many of the men in his government, especially the northerners, ran roughshod. The government was widely suspected of tampering with the 1963 census figures to ensure northern control in the federal parliament. In 1962, it jailed Chief Obafemi Awolowo, the anti-north Premier of the Western Region, and installed its own man, Chief Akintola...
...great champion of American independence. France, he demonstrates, was primarily interested in its war with George III, and considered the U.S. just a handy stick to beat Britain with. Even before the war was over, the Bourbon monarchy did everything diplomatically possible to reduce, partition and even scuttle the brash young nation that had dared dispute the rule of royalty. And during the peace negotiations, France cynically tried to sell the U.S. down the river for the sake of an overall settlement with Britain and Spain...