Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Edmund Muskie also withdrew. "Let us recognize," he said, "that George McGovern's candidacy gives a hope for the long-term health and vigor of the Democratic Party and its processes far more significant than temporary difficulties and irritations from sometimes brash new blood." His leaving was ironic; he had begun 1972 as the front runner in the mind of almost every Democratic politician and political analyst. Although he had been on the point of endorsing McGovern several weeks before, Muskie clung to a stubborn hope. On Monday he tried to call a conference of all the candidates to reach...
Because Bench is a brash, smooth-talking top-drawer athlete with a lavish bachelor pad in a Cincinnati singles complex, he naturally invites comparison with Joe Namath. The comparison is invidious. He is warm, friendly and never overweening. Bench's confidence is the deeply ingrained type peculiar to young men who have always known exactly what they wanted to do in life. As he recalls: "In the second grade they asked us what we wanted to be. Some said they wanted to be a farmer. Some said rancher or cowboy. I said I wanted to be a ballplayer...
...some ways his suicide at 57 made no sense. In recent years he finally achieved some of the fame, honors and money he deserved, and he appeared to enjoy them. Among people, he was an ebullient man with a trumpeting voice and a long, bushy beard-generous, energetic, brash. But he suffered acutely from alcoholism and remorse over what he considered a messy, misspent life. He did not forgive himself: "At fifty-five half-famous & effective, I still feel rotten about myself," he wrote in one of his poems...
...Brash, bold and bent on making it big, 73-year-old Floyd Dewey Gottwald of Richmond, Va., has been running up a remarkable record of swift starts and fast fades. In the early 1940s he turned a little paper company into the world's largest producer of blotting paper; then the blotter market rapidly dried up as the ballpoint pen caught on. Next, Gottwald converted his company into a maker of thick, waterproof paper bags for packaging fertilizer and chemicals, only to see that market crumble when plastic-lined bags came out. In 1962, with his two sons, Gottwald...
...Women's Wear Daily, the brash and breezy tabloid trade paper, last week acquired a new standard-newspaper-size sibling called W, a fortnightly that Publisher John Fairchild says is aimed at "an audience of intellectually affluent women in the U.S. and abroad." Priced at 50?, or $7.50 a year, W contains lavish color illustrations and a collage of fashion and gossip dedicated to what the beautiful people of both sexes are saying, wearing and doing. The first issue, well seeded with ads, went to 70,000 charter subscribers, and Editor Michael Coady sees circulation rising...