Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...black dress with her, but there had been no time to unpack it), her face a pale, wan oval beneath a tight black hat, Elizabeth stood in the door of the plane, looking down at the bared heads of the men who had come to meet her. With a brave half smile, she came quickly down the steps. The black-clad semicircle bowed as one man. Elizabeth shook hands with the Prime Minister. Then, followed by Philip, she walked gravely along the line of Privy Councilors, shaking hands and murmuring a word to each. The Argonaut's eight crewmen...
Tenor Richard Tucker had a triumph of his own. Singing his first Don José, he proved again that his is probably the finest tenor to be heard today. No actor, he made a brave try to be one, and in the blazing fourth act succeeded. The rest of the cast, notably Frank Guarrera as Escamillo and Nadine Conner as Micaela, rallied to the cause. The orchestra, under Conductor Fritz Reiner, turned in a subtle and glowing performance...
...making his own decisions and standing by them, along if necessary' ... looks rather silly in the light of modern life." I suppose he does seem rather out of place in the new nation which our "modern" pioneers are forging. Yet would you tell us, after you have built this "brave new America," based on the firm foundation of these two well-known continental peace preservatives, armaments and conscription, who will defend what? Ray Gastil...
...blueprinted the Welfare State, 72-year-old Lord Beveridge, last week surveyed the brave new world of womb-to-tomb security and sadly reported: there has been "too much leveling down...
...wrote. "I am obliged to leave with Courtin, a vulgar criminal. I am giving him 10,000 francs, but he won't get far on that." Donning the caps and capes of the prison guards, the two then departed, and, when running into someone, put on a brave show as guards seeking the missing prisoners...