Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...jurors had just seen U.S. jurisprudence rise to brave heights in a Southern courtroom; they had sat before a determined, able prosecutor, a stern and impartial judge. But the jurors were only temporarily a part of the court; they belonged in the little town which lay in the rain outside. If they convicted white men for the lynching of a Negro they would risk social ostracism, perhaps violence...
Most fantastic of the week's stories concerned Costa Rica, the brave little Central American democracy whose teachers outnumber its soldiers. A shadowy Costa Rican politician known only as El Viejo (the Old One) was said to have assembled 1,000 men among the volcanoes of El Salvador, and equipped his force with rifles, machine guns, light field pieces, two light bombers...
Gentle, tender, brave and true...
...facts. Hollywood handles trade unions with kid gloves, if at all, has scarcely mentioned Communism since the screamingly pro-Russian Mission to Moscow. Even more obviously false was Zhukov's statement that "the stink of race prejudice is smelled miles away. . . . While 100% Americans are always brave and noble heroes, Negroes are either imbeciles . . . or wild beasts inspiring the hatred of the audience. . . ." Actually, Hollywood (though it is inclined to show Negroes as rather simple) has not presented a violently villainous Negro since The Birth of a Nation...
Francis Cardinal Spellman, already an honorary Osage Indian Chief, made the grade with the Sioux, was inducted into the Oglala Tribe as Wambli Ohitika (Chief Brave Eagle...