Word: braved
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...father announced with a proud disregard for facts and figures that 'if we all put our shoulders to the wheel we could see this country through without the Goddam loan from America.' I try to explain why I think the brave, prosperous British Empire era is on the wane, and badly needs the loan. He will have none of this, stoutly believes we will win through despite this Goddam Labor Government...
Where is Altgeld, brave as the truth...
Visionary young Milton McRompers, the Boy Senator, had a brave idea-to force every candidate for public office to have his head examined. But after three weeks under the fiendish McRompers law, the U.S. had had enough. Washington went wild over repeal and the joyous headline: "Government officials no longer to be selected on basis of brains and integrity." Cartoonist Al Capp (Li'l Abner), who had dreamed up the episode in his Sunday comic strip, turned his fertile mind to other things...
...give mothers-to-be the impression that to produce two quarts of prime milk is possible only to a mother of such brave porportions as Mrs. Joell. That is my present production figure, and between babies my measure is a modest 32-my profile as flat as a table...
...there (in one of her hats). So were Wellington Koo, Sir John (now Viscount) Simon, Lord & Lady Mountbatten and General Spaatz. With cautious restraint, Clement and Mrs. Attlee sipped gin and lemon. Herbert Morrison wandered pixy-like and alone through the garden to the huge refreshment tent, sampling a brave but pallid collation of austerity sandwiches and hors d'oeuvres. Through it all stood friendly, broad-shouldered Ambassador Averell Harriman, shaking hands with each of his 2,000 guests. Once in a while the Ambassador would collapse into a nearby chair...