Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last year Sihanouk abdicated the throne, became his own Premier and promulgated a brave pro-Western anti-Communist policy. But after a Tammany-style general election (which he won 100%), Sihanouk found the responsibilities of the premiership niggling, and appointed himself a kind of freewheeling plenipotentiary of foreign affairs...
Even the Harvard band will brave both the elements and the taunts of onlookers with its red coats. The bandsmen will march the entire five-mile distance, shielded by shamrocks in their lapels and an "Erin go bragh" emblazoned on The Drum...
...Volume X (The Atlantic Battle Won) of his huge history of the U.S. Navy in World War II, Harvard's Professor Samuel Eliot Morison writes: "The Atlantic, which since the dawn of history has been taking the lives of brave and adventurous men, must have received more human bodies into its ocean graveyard during the years 1939-45 than in all other naval wars since the fleets of Blake and Van Tromp grappled in the Narrow Seas." And Rear Admiral Morison, U.S.N.R., adds: "Sailormen all, and passengers too, we salute...
Radio Workshop (Fri. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Part II of Brave New World...
With the freeing of all IBM and A.1 .& T. patents, the brave new world of electronics-in which both specialize-looked last week like the Oklatioma Territory on the eve of the grand land rush...