Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Wineskins squirted into thirsty mouths; trumpets blared the heart-quickening paso doble of the brave fiesta; cries of Ole! rang across a bull ring that is an exact copy of the one in old Seville. It was the privilege of the prosperous Venezuelan city of Maracay (pop. 64,535) last week to witness the return to the ring of Luis Miguel Dominguin, 30, most artful living bullfighter, who retired in 1953 after eleven active years. The privilege cost Maracay $50,000 for two weekend corridas. That was the highest pay ever given to a bullfighter, but the promoter knew what...
...Joan Vohs), the coolest gambler on the plains, and the Long Road to Tucson will relate the saga of seven nuns on the trail from San Diego to the Arizona territory. So far, Wyatt Earp (starring Hugh O'Brian) has permitted only the occasional intrusion of women, but Brave Eagle (with Keith Larsen and Kim Winona) and Gunsmoke each have a hot-eyed heroine ready and willing to buckle on the guns and go out after the badmen if Frontier's ratings decree that women belong in the saddle and the men should go back to the range...
...Army van rumbled around the rim of the playing field at Philadelphia's Municipal Stadium. The sign on its side was a proud boast: "Secret Weapon." Then the tail gate dropped and a pair of girl cheerleaders pranced out. It was a thin gag. The Brave Old Army Team needed more than that to sink Navy. It needed, most, someone like last year's crack passing quarterback. Pete Vann. Still a student at the Point. Vann marched in the massed, grey Corps of Cadets, but he had used up his athletic eligibility...
...drama was resolved in flames, the first-night audience went up in smoke. From her first speech, Julie Harris had held them, as her Joan was held, in the bright wonder of a visitation. In the power of the English (Christopher Plummer) she sat in the cruel dock, a brave but pathetic young girl; yet as she played her life out on the stage, a beauty of holiness unfolded out of her and beat upon the faces of the crowd like great white wings. They followed the gleam of her sincerity as she led them through a thicket of theology...
...into two-reelers for Our Gang comedies. One of the funniest has the brothers hooking their grandmother's wig with a fishing line to prove to the neighborhood small fry that she has been scalped by the Indians. The final episode in the book is funny, pathetic and brave. On his dying day Papa put on his boots and Mama would not let the attending doctor take them off because Papa always "wanted to die with his boots on." It's things like that that give the old West a good name...