Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, the plaintiffs responded that this brash measure would violate the approval that was obtained by the Cambridge Historical Commission for preserving the historic doors...
...Suesse and the other novelty pianists, recognition arrives too late for them to enjoy. Pauline Alpert, who lived out her final days afraid to leave her home on the Grand Concourse in the Bronx, died in 1988, Suesse the year before. Still, their brash, high-stepping music lives on, as key a piece of Americana as flappers, bathtub gin and Calvin Coolidge's Indian headdress--and twice as much...
...begins to wear off, partly because users see so many of their friends dead," says James Q. Wilson, the UCLA professor who is one of the nation's most prominent thinkers on crime. That's important, because crack was the great impetus to crime in the late 1980s as brash new dealers muscled in. Another theory is that the trade has simply stabilized into a "mature market," as they say in the business schools, with surviving distributors less likely to clash over territory...
Gramm is often compared to the late John Connally, another brash Texan with a gift for gab. Yet that comparison ill serves Connally's reputation. Connally was the lousiest of candidates (his $12 million run for the 1980 G.O.P. nod netted him only one delegate) but nobody ever described him as too small for the presidency, which is exactly how many who know Gramm speak...
...recent visit of Yasser Arafat to the Harvard campus has evoked many different reactions from members of our community. However, none have been as brash and irresponsible as the angry piece of prose doled out to Crimson readers by Justin Danilewitz and Eric Nelson ("Embracing a Murderer," signed piece...