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...British defendants, ex-Navy Chief Petty Officer Henry Houghton, 56, and his fiancee, Ethel Elizabeth Gee, 46, a clerk at the Portland base, showed far less bravado. In an attempt to cut his own sentence, Houghton tried to turn Queen's evidence at the expense of the others, including his fiancee. Ethel Gee sounded brusque and matronly as she protested she was just a silly little fool who had been under Houghton's thumb. The Lord Chief Justice scornfully told her: "I think you acted, not out of blind infatuation, but for greed." Each was sentenced...
...Europeans were swamped more than 2 to 1 by those Moslems who went to the polls. From the safety of his self-exile in Spain, fiery Pierre Lagaillarde insisted the "F.L.N. flag will never fly over Algiers. We will fight!" But the Europeans in Algeria were drained of such bravado, recognizing at long last that Algérie FranÇaise is dead. They no longer expect help from the French army, which was once their stoutest ally. Even before the referendum, the army showed grudging loyalty to De Gaulle and dismayed the die-hards by opening fire...
Beneath Berman's gentle, familial humor and his brilliantly controlled voice, there is the constant hint of tension. Like a sort of Everymanic-depressive, Berman offstage-and sometimes even Berman onstage-rapidly moves from patience to anger, from caution to bravado, from hilarity to gloom. Every line of his rough-weathered face ("Isn't it awful," he says, "to be 34 and look 90?") is on the defensive. He blinks, cracks his knuckles and pulls his hair as he chases worries across his mind: Will the talking records choke off his popularity in clubs? Should he order...
...work just tell us and we'll try to fix it up." Often several contacts were necessary before the delinquent ever showed up at the laboratory, but in each case the program was eventually successful in getting attendance. Slack notes, "The first hours were filled with bravado and hostility. But gradually they became dependent on the job and the kindness of the experimenter." "Them--people, from all over, from the Square, Roxbury, Brighton. Everywhere in them cities my name is known, for two things. I'm a hustler; I'm a bad man." At first individual meetings were held...
...When Rio was chosen for the congress, I groaned. 'Brother, we've had it.' It looked like more bravado than brains...