Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...they decided to escape. The Social Democrat had a good intellect; he made the plan to tunnel. The brawny anarchist did the digging. But they realized that the man to go first through the tunnel would be shot at by the guard. They all turned to the big, brave anarchist, but he was afraid to go. Suddenly, poor little Pinya drew himself up and said: 'Comrades, you elected me by democratic process as your leader, therefore I will go first...
Planned Withdrawal. In Buffalo, Carmelo J. Giambra, one of the gunmen who robbed the Linwood Branch of the Liberty Bank of $23,775, was arrested and identified, pleaded guilty after he returned six days later in a brave attempt to open a savings account...
Canada's new Conservative government, carried into office last summer in a razor's-edge upset victory, moved last week to make good on the brave campaign talk of a $500 million tax cut. In a modest beginning, the Tories proclaimed personal income-tax reductions (effective Jan. 1) amounting to $146 million a year, sprinkled mainly in the lower income brackets...
...dimly autobiographical," Inge came upon the theme of "fear, the personal fear with which each man lives in a world that does not want to recognize fear. It has taken me many years of living to realize the fears in us all, the fears in the most seemingly brave, the bravery in the most seemingly frightened...
...WAPSHOT CHRONICLE, by John Cheever. The most ruefully amusing novel of the year, a story about an old New England family on the skids, with a cast of pathetically brave left-behinds, hilarious eccentrics and nice youngsters who lack the gumption of their elders...