Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...itself an inadequate approach to our task . . . Dollars and guns are no substitutes for brains and will power." When Adlai Stevenson remarked, "A wise man does not try to hurry history," Eisenhower replied: "Every American knows the answer to that one. Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over...
...Kennedy is no more than a fanatic attempt to purge Lodge. The first statement seems plausible, the second unexceptionable, yet together they clash. If Lodge is the cipher Mr. Landis claims he is, why should the Taftites strain themselves so for his defeat? Surely, the Republican irresponsible would not brave the derision inevitably attending their support of a party-line Democrat unless Lodge threatened their power...
...matadors today was a small boy of fourteen years, who survived a couple of run-ins with the bull and went on to defeat him. This brave lad possessed all the gestures of the old pros and he put on the best show of them all. No matter what you may think of bull-fighting or the kid's chances of retiring at sixty-five in one piece, you have to recognize his as an exhibition of guts and skill. He was Albie Booth cracking a beefy line, he was Bobby Schantz beating the Yankees...
...eating," says the ample Frenchman who is known to all Gallic gourmets as Prince Curnonsky, "has nothing to do with the need for nourishment." The propagation of this great truth has brought the 220-lb. prince not only his title and his brave paunch but an endless succession of free meals. His only regret is that he realized it so late. Born plain Maurice-Edmond Sailland, he ate well, as most people do in his native Loire valley, up to the age of 15, but only for the sake of sustenance. Then his wealthy family hired an illiterate peasant girl...
Playwright Laurents (Home of the Brave, The Bird Cage) is the latest of many writers to exhibit two colliding traditions of love. He wisely seems to suggest that there is something to be said on both sides, though his heroine's plight with her merchant of Venice seems a bit extreme, a little like the setup for an Ethel Merman song. But Cuckoo offers some sound enough comments, and some effective scenes. And there is the opportunity for Actress Booth to display her fine gifts for comedy and pathos...