Word: brashness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, Jelly Roll Morton and Sidney Bechet, the story goes, the music thrived until the closing of the red-light district in 1917 sent many of the Crescent City's best players up the Mississippi in search of work. There they gave birth to the brash, vibrant Chicago sound, which helped lay the groundwork for what would eventually become the swing style that reigned during the Big Band...
...undue precedence over the other instruments. The secondary problem was one of tempo; the pace of the first movement (the development in particular) was a bit slow and pedantic. This was inappropriate for the inherent liveliness and humor of Haydn. As a result, the cadential chords sounded forced and brash...
...Brash young Sachs's overseas exploits prompted The Los Angeles Times to call him "the Indiana Jones of economics." The Harvard professor's forays into real-world economic management have elicited inevitable comparisons to Galbraith...
SPORT: Burly and brash, the Oakland A's are a team for all postseasons...
Bush knows all too well that there's no way can he get a brash right-winger on the Court without a tough Senate fight. So he has instead appointed a judge so unknown even to the legal community that nobody can find a reason to oppose...