Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scoring of debater's points, and the participants--persons deserving at least of interest, if not of affection--making themselves generally intolerable. I was, of course, merely imprisoned in that bituminous vacancy which men call the Experimental Theatre of the Loeb Drama Center, sharing space with some remarkably brave young actors...
Finally, the inquiry also raises questions as to the validity of the Military Code of Conduct (see ESSAY), which requires brave men of conscience like Bucher to endure vicious treatment rather than sign false confessions that are of dubious value anyway. Fiercely loyal to his crew, orphanage-raised Bucher could only be made to sign such a document when he believed his men-his military family-would be shot one by one. Whatever the court of inquiry decides, it is clear that the Navy's investigation will not satisfy Congress. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield predicted that both...
...least for the first week-and it was clear that Johnson was having some difficulty unwinding. "He's not basically constituted to assume this new posture," observed Jake Jacobsen, a former aide. In a two-hour press conference at the ranch, Johnson was by turns shy and brave, moody and fitful, wistful and uncertain. He said he was convinced that he had done the right thing in renouncing reelection last March. Only Lady Bird seemed altogether certain that she would rather be in Blanco County, Texas, than Washington. Her main problem was that all the closets seemed to have...
...Midwest. Then one morning ten months ago, four days after Martin Luther King Jr. was shot, Miller began talking about the post-assassination rioting on Chicago's West Side. On his top-rated WIND show, he declared that there should be a day of tribute for "our brave policemen and firemen." Then, noting an inflammatory-and, it developed, totally false-report that 3,000 rioters were planning to storm the Chicago Avenue Armory, he said, "Do you want...
...needed that. Those three brave and simple men, flying farther and faster to more forbidding frontiers than ever before, were an inspiration we have needed and must not now let slip. In tormented 1968, symbols of pride and constructive achievement were singularly lacking in our national life, but to end on such an upswing might be just what we need to urge us to work harder, moan less, and move into 1969 with a new resolve to overcome our earthbound problems...