Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...imponderable pressures of "world opinion" toward negotiated agreements with world Communism in general and toward a suspension of U.S. nuclear tests in particular, and in longings for a parley at the summit. Now that pressure was indefinitely postponed-as usual, at the cost of the lives of brave men. Said Secretary of State Dulles: "I still think it will be a little time before there is a summit conference, if indeed there...
...American Heritage, Rene Kuhn Bryant records Sibley's labors. His first volume, a record of "strange experience in childhood, brave struggles to obtain an education, of virtue and heroism under temptations of wealth and worldly honor," appeared in 1873, his second in 1881. Ailing and past 70, he draped himself in a shawl, wore three pairs of spectacles at once to help his dimming eyesight, and continued burrowing through the archives of the Massachusetts Historical Society. In 1885 he published a third volume, completing the biographies through the class of 1689. He died the same year, but Librarian Sibley...
...grand Irish fairy godmother of Massachusetts politics were to grant two wishes to the Republicans, they would wish: 1) that there were no such thing as a Democratic Senator named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, or, failing this; 2) that the Republicans could find such a man-brave, well-known, experienced, heavily coifed, well-born-who could beat the stuffing out of Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy...
...English literature. Says Shuster: "In a Julius Caesar scene, we try to do it so no classics professor would quarrel with it." They have also spoofed Mother Goose, Robin Hood, Les Miserables, and kidded the stirrups off "adult" westerns in a skit titled: "The Frontier Psychiatrist . . . dedicated to the brave men who brought mental health to the West...
...ends with the familiar recommendations to cut the birth rate, boost the food supply and decentralize urban life. But his recommendations seem perfunctory. Watching his stereotype of the satisfied American teen-ager pleasurably floating in a television world, Huxley sees little real hope for the future. And when the brave new world comes, he concludes, it will likely stay forever: "Men and women will grow up to love their servitude and will never dream of revolution. There seems to be no good reason why a thoroughly scientific dictatorship should ever be overthrown...