Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Tedious, backbreaking cape and sword lessons with Rodolfo Gaona, "Mexico's best and one of the three greatest matadors* of all time," taught Franklin that bullfighting was grinding work. He learned to respect the brave bulls, too. "But what enthralled me most," says frank Sidney Franklin, "was the absolute idolatry in which the crowd held the fighters." Extroverted, extravagant, foolish and flamboyant, Franklin surf boarded through the '20s on this idolatrous wave, bathing himself in a thunderous surf of resounding...
...brave South Koreans were sometimes too proud for their own good. Once, when they were dislodged from the peak of Sniper, their commander failed to report it for fear of losing face. He intended to counterattack the next day, without air and artillery support, and win the position back. If he had tried it, his force would have been slaughtered. But higher echelons discovered the plan in time and gave the ROKs the support they needed...
...Paso is a good painter and a good writer. He loves his native Southwest, is steeped in its history and traditions. In his first novel, The Brave Bulls (TIME, April 25, 1949), he was an artist writing exactly and movingly about another art: bullfighting. He was also a surprisingly good novelist exploring the range of courage, despair and fear in the heart of a brave...
...build roads into Bhutan have been halted by the ravages of wild elephants which rip up the road beds and tear down the bridges, but the Bhutanese don't mind at all. In fact they like it that way, and if by chance a foreigner wishes to brave the nine-day journey by mule-back over the mountains into Bhutan, he must first get a special invitation from the King himself. The King is very careful about choosing the people he invites to Bhutan...
...Savage (Paramount) considers the predicament of a white boy adopted by Sioux Indians. In time, the youth grows up to be a handsome brave named Warbonnet (Charlton Heston). When his foster father Chief Yellow Eagle goes to war with the white men, Warbonnet's loyalties are naturally torn. Matters become even more complicated when Warbonnet falls in love with a white girl (Susan Morrow...