Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Like the 1940s movie heroines that preceded her, Griffith's character is smart, beautiful, and brave. After she volunteers to replace a downed U.S. agent in war-torn Germany, she has to depend on her ability to speak German, the invaluable training she's learned from cloak and dagger maneuvers in her favorite movies, and, in the inevitable pinch, her lover...
...offered an invitation to Mikhail S. Gorbachev--you know, the former leader of the former Soviet Union. If I were Gorbachev, I'd take my forty-dollar-a-month pension, settle into my little dacha in the Crimea and play with my grand-daughter. I wouldn't want to brave the Boston winter to explain to 24-year-old gov jocks how I failed as the leader of the world's other "superpower." Even Freud wouldn't recommend that much self-awareness...
...Only the brave or the foolish play golf in 30 degrees weather, but Bill Clinton needed some release -- nine quick holes at the Little Rock Country Club last Wednesday. In jeans and a windbreaker, Clinton raced around the course, offering a running (and occasionally profane) commentary on his erratic game and long stream-of-consciousness rambles about health care and tax policy, two of the issues he hopes to master well enough to carry him to the White House. As he recharged himself physically, his mind remained squarely on the prize, and especially on how exactly he intends...
...solution proposed is brave only in its triviality. In the face of self-segregation and a lot of latent or not-so-latent bigotry we are told that the answer to our problems is an administrative shuffle. We need "a single office with a clearly stated mandate" and "an effective, charismatic leader...
THERE ARE 20 SHOPPING days left before Christmas. And you know what? I'm not worried at all. My shopping for Chanukah presents is done. I had to brave "Black Friday" at my local mall--the only mall in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. My mom and I blocked in an Amish buggy in the parking lot. When we got back to our car, the tires were all slashed...