Word: braved
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Citizens of Boston soon tossed the "detested T E A" into Boston Harbor, thus enabling the News-Letter to report that "a number of brave and resolute men dressed in the Indian manner ... in the space of three Hours . . . broke up 342 Chests...
Straying away from the officials, the good Senator found himself on a small balcony overlooking the great hall where the students ate. It was noontime. The fare, which none but the brave could eat, was on the tables...
...traced from his birth to the last hunt in a country where fox hunting is life. This thread of unity is broken only by several brief and splendidly executed vignettes of South Carolina plantation life, cockfighting, whopper-telling, and a few poignant sequences depicting with brave objectivity the final breakdown of the old plantation system...
...name of the marcher is Constantin Golovan, and he is a school teacher in the Rumanian village of Drago-Slavele, in the district of Muscel. M. Golovan is a member of the highest Rumanian military order of 'Mihai Viteazul' (Michael the Brave), which was created in 1916 and corresponds to our Victoria Cross. . . . M. Golovan came to the funeral of King George as a member of the delegation of this order, which comprised also a Rumanian general and two colonels. A sublieutenant in a Chasseur regiment during the War, he won the coveted honor by valor...
...Shoot me first!" screamed Viscountess Saito darting forward and clapping her hand over the muzzle of the nearest machine gun. Instantly both trigger fingers clenched and the double roar of ZUG-ZUG-ZUG began. Bloody was the brave Viscountess' hand as her lord, the Admiral and Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal crumpled and died under the murderous fusillade...