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Word: braved (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most occasions. He knows the great world, as is shown by the Molesworth newsletter: "(a) russians are roters. (b) americans are swankpots. (c) the french are slack, (d) the germans are unspeakable, (e) the rest are as bad if not worse than the above, (f) the British are brave super and noble cheers cheers cheers. The only way for Peace is for all of them to dive into the sea and end it all." But he is at his best as a tactician in his own local revolution against the masters. Molesworth is succinct in a guide to "Kanes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skoolsfor Skandal | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

Colonel Dilley, an infantry soldier who commands U.S. Army installations in Frankfurt, had taken a horrified glance at the sloppy and sometimes less-than-decent appearance of American womenfolk in his area. The colonel is a brave man, and so he decided to do something about it. "The attire being worn in public by some American women is not in good taste," he proclaimed. Henceforth, "women dressed improperly" would not be permitted to enter U.S. military installations in his area, including PXs, commissaries, theaters, snack bars and service clubs. Specifically taboo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: The Proper Look | 8/16/1954 | See Source »

...This is not a good dream life to offer adolescent lads . . . The hero is what they would like to be. Outwardly he is everything they are not: tall, broad-shouldered, very strong, very brave, attractive to the girls . . . Nothing new here: boys and youths have been identifying themselves with the Hero for thousands of years . . . But we might see to it that the Hero is not so often kicking people in the stomach and then smashing their faces into red pulp . . . It will be as well if the citizens of tomorrow do not take it for granted that people they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: The Red-Pulp View | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

Apache (Hecht-Lancaster; United Artists) claims to follow in the bootsteps of High Noon and Shane, but it trips along the way. It stars Burt Lancaster in a fairly closeup view of the Indian brave, Massai, who refused to join Geronimo in a peace contract with the U.S. Army. The old chief and his warriors are shipped off to Florida reservations, but Massai escapes and decides to go it alone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Aug. 9, 1954 | 8/9/1954 | See Source »

...greatest of Diem's immeasurable problems lay in the Asian truth that had already brought one-half of Indo-China crashing down into Communism: the Vietnamese who cared were less impressed by the brave intentions of powerless men, than by the ruthless success of the Communists in a faraway place called Geneva...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Anguished Peace | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

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