Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...upstate New York's Saratoga; such concrete-and-asphalt betting receptacles as New York's Jamaica and Aqueduct; dozens of obscure little tracks that horsemen call "bull rings." There were 50,000 registered thoroughbreds, at least half of them in racing training, and 1,400 tough, undersized and often brave little men to don the silks of 1,400 registered racehorse owners and ride the thoroughbreds for money...
...Gordon was avenged in the British manner," and Khartoum became the capital of that "pleasant fiction" entitled "the Anglo-Egyptian Sudan." Few of Gordon's works have survived like his legend-and few Britons are likely to swap this for the brave man of flesh & blood who used humbly to say: "I've been very low, old fellow. Don't be hard on me. This is a terrible country...
...vice president of the Bank of New York who fathered Father in his spare time, now puts that vestigial American male through his paces during a vacation. The summer house, on an island off New England, has been rented sight unseen and looks it. but Mr. Hobbs is brave in the face of basketwork furniture, a recalcitrant pump and a cesspool that backfires...
...underneath the sly, somnolent exterior, there is more. Under the wartime threat of torture and death, he was cool and brave. Under the pressures of cold war, he has held courageously to the proposition that for France, survival lies in loyal alliance with the U.S. At the Berlin Conference, with a divided government and country behind him, he spoke out firmly and unequivocally. "He is a realist who will not let the dream of the best prevent him from grasping the good," said one who considers himself a friend. "The core of Bidault is rigidly moral and deeply religious...
...convictions. But before they reach the final, melodramatic pages, his readers may long for Graham Greener pastures: they must listen to page upon page of second-rate smart talk on the one hand and chummy religious matter on the other. The Dove with the Bough of Olive is a brave and interesting try, but it seems to prove that any author who attempts to mix the frivolities of Belgravia with the profundities of Heaven is in mortal danger of going straight to Hollywood...