Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There are some brave souls who attempt to define recession in specific terms. The results are just as baffling. To retailers, a recession is a drop in sales, but they will differ as to whether it is a 5% or a 20% drop. To manufacturers, industrial production is the yardstick; to labor leaders, unemployment; to Wall Streeters, stock prices...
...spite of their petty feuds and cynicism, most of them fight well. Author Nimier can write crackling scenes of ground combat, and he uses combat to expose the personalities of his men, not to show off his qualifications as a war novelist. But whatever they are, cowards or brave men, Nimier's hussars live on the page, right up to the bullet that gets them...
...right, that he sought to make them prevail, that he did not gracefully compound his differences with the men who modified his theories. Our culture would seem to have changed since the days when schoolchildren were taught that for Columbus to say, 'Sail on! Sail on!' was brave and fine, not ill-natured and undemocratic...
...star-carrying angel, all suspended from a crescent moon; and "Spring," a versatile, pastel menage of rabbits, flowers, birds and butterflies ($1 and $1.95, Scamanda Mobiles, Manhattan). ¶Decorative abstractions, such as Sculptor Marechal Brown's "Tapered Quills," looking like giant buffalo teeth strung on an Indian brave's necklace ($33, Gotham Lighting Corp., New York City). ¶Elegant, modernistic fish in contrastingly colored woods, handmade by Connecticut Sculptor Clark Voorhees ($270, Hansen, Manhattan). ¶Children's mobiles, with figures from nursery rhymes ($3.95, Spacecraft, Detroit) ; "Rocket" and a "Circus" collection of acrobats and animals...
...fortress at West Point through André, and the young English major would be firmly set in his army career for life. Caught in civilian clothes at the very edge of success, tried and convicted as a spy, he gave the world a classic lesson in how a brave and debonair soldier should meet his death. Marching to his execution, on a hill west of Tappan, N.Y., he remarked to his captors: "I am very much surprised to find your troops under such good discipline, and your music is excellent...