Word: braved
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...world's largest floating drydock from Britain to Singapore, early this year, having lost his haul for the first time in, his career. Off Borkum Reef, the 200-foot drydock that he was towing last week reared high on two gigantic waves, broke in two, sank. Brave Captain Verscheor, bruised and bleeding from being smashed against the rails of his bridge, stood by to rescue all nine of the foundered drydock's crew...
MANY WATERS?Episodic history of a brave married couple...
MANY WATERS-Episodic history of a brave married couple...
...seemed. For one thing, he never took advantage of the passion innocently offered him by his beloved Masha, the gypsy. For another, he never told lies, so that rather than commit the wholesale falsification necessary to give his wife a divorce, he pretended to kill himself (he was not brave enough for real suicide) so that she could marry a devoted, comfortable suitor. When Fedya's ruse was discovered years later and he learned that, depending on the courts, he had either to remarry his wife or be exiled with her to Siberia for bigamy, he did find...
...passion (outside of his job) was hunting. He liked women, but loved dogs. He had mistresses in his younger days, and was twice married, purely as a matter of business. Suspicious, he had an elaborate system of spies. Relentless, he hung traitors or put them in iron cages. Personally brave, he was terribly afraid of death...