Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then there was Belinsky, the first real "kook" the majors have seen in quite a while. The Angels' rookie pitcher, who threw the leagues' first no-hitter since 1958 against the Orioles Saturday, may not be a perfect specimen of the brash rookie of the great school of You Know Me Al, but he is close enough to it to provide welcome relief from the league's homerun treadmill to oblivion...
...Israel ended Palestine's role as banker to the Middle East, free-enterprising Lebanon has been inundated by a flood of investment money from oil-rich Saudi princes and from wealthy Egyptians, Syrians and Iraqis frightened by the increasingly socialist policies of their own governments. Riding this tide, brash, resolute Yusuf Bedas in ten years of frenetic expansion has built Intra from scratch into Beirut's largest bank, with capital of $10,000,000 and 16 branches in Europe and the Arab world...
...quartet may be stormy, but its violence has no chaos or uncertainty, and the Claremont Quartet captured that assurance. Moevs's brash lines knew their they were going, and good coordination kept their melodic independence clear. The Quartet made the piece's kernel patterns of rhythm make good sense, most of all the second movement's curt syncopations...
...Strauss, are firm advocates of a strong Atlantic alliance and argue that they are merely trying to strengthen it. Others are more concerned with German unity. They would reject nuclear armament and would make other concessions to Russia for the sake of reunification. Off on another tangent is brash Hans Kroll, West Germany's ambassador in Moscow, whose loud advocacy of rapprochement with Russia last fall earned him a personal dressing down from Adenauer himself. Last week Kroll was again ordered home by the angry Chancellor, following press reports that in private talks he had been urging an astonishing...
...millions of landless peasants, King Mahendra abruptly dissolved Parliament, jailed Koirala and as many of his Cabinet ministers as the inept Nepali police could lay hands on. After suppressing the nation's 15 political parties, the King has ruled through an appointed six-man Cabinet headed by brash young Foreign and Home Minister Tulsi Giri, 34. The King also developed his own system of "guided democracy'' based on village councils that are elected by a public show of hands...