Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usually stolid Christian Science Monitor inflicted cruel & unusual punishment on its readers with Pitchers Feller, Sain and Lemon in the World Series games between the Cleveland Indians and Boston Braves. A pre-game picture caption announced the starting pitchers: Brave Sain Braves Indian Feller. The caption on the morning-after picture: Sain-sational Start. The Page One headline: BOUDREAU CALLS FOR LEMON...
...story contrasts the characters and careers of a detective and a crook, both born in poor New York Italian families. The detective (Victor Mature) is reasonably intelligent, persistent, brave and ill-paid. The criminal (Richard Conte) is shrewd, unregenerate, reckless, vain, easy with the money and the girls. Conceding that the crook is much the more obviously interesting character, the movie grants him the bulk of its attention. But that is all it grants him. Without ever quite getting mealymouthed, it builds up an honest and impressive case against...
...brave design faced serious obstacles. Some of them were sourly expressed last week by General Charles de Gaulle. Although no site for the permanent Western command had been determined, De Gaulle feared that it would be London. Said he: "Europe must be defended in Europe ... I simply say that England is an island. I can't do anything about that, neither can she. And I say to you that Europe is not an island but a continent . . . The natural center of a defense plan is France. But for the present, France is hardly present. The problem of European defense...
...Jittery Cleveland needed only one game to win, and couldn't win it. On the last day of the season, the Red Sox caught up. The first tie in American League history called for a one-game playoff. Manager Lou Boudreau of Cleveland tried to put on a brave front: "It just means going to Boston a day earlier...
Before the American Bankers Association in Detroit last week, Westinghouse Electric's President Gwilym A. Price painted a brave picture of the new world ahead of U.S. industry, "an economy whose horizons will be almost as far beyond those of the present as today's are beyond those of our boyhood...