Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Writing about this Brave New World in 1932, Aldous Huxley described the human hatching & conditioning centers, where everyone was taught his place. The highest were a super class of executives known as Alphas, the lowest were Epsilons, or sewer workers, who were taught Ford's memorable words: "History is bunk...
Snuffling, sneezing and moist-eyed, the U.S. showed all the symptoms of a man with a nasty winter cold. The cold was inflation. Despite brave attempts just to bundle up a little more warmly and forget all about it, the U.S. had undoubtedly come down with something...
There are few people who would not be directly affected by one or more of these proposals. Every single proposal is likely to be anathema to some particular economic group. Mr. Turman was particularly brave in proposing wage ceilings for certain industries--a matter which several commentators had already concluded he would not dare to touch...
...football team ever left West Point with such a send-off and such a premonition of doom. Two M-8 armored cars escorted the squad to the station, where guns boomed out an eleven-gun salute. The brave men of Army were going out to face mighty Notre Dame for the last time...
...Majesty's Colonel Ray Milland can't quite get acclimated to. Rollywood's favorite ninepin, Marlene Dietrich. He's busy looking for Professor Grosig and the formula for a poison gas. In fact, all your old friends are here: the fat German with a sear, the brave little Oxonian who is tortured while keeping his chin up, the big sex-appeal Gypsy boy with a tern shirt and 33 children, the usual retinue of glum Nazi henchmen, and, last, but not least, the genial white horse that wiggles its ears. You can't forget those gypsy kisses that's what...