Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Brave talk. The Administration has yet to prove it can deliver. Most of bin Laden's hidden finances have been impossible to find. Pentagon officials admit they're not flush with big fat targets in bin Laden's network, which is a collection of highly mobile terror cells with no central headquarters. Sending in commandos to snatch him in Afghanistan would be too bloody an operation, and the country's ruling Taliban is so far in no mood to turn him over...
...attentive and engaging a figure that he could hold us just by describing his drives around town. At times he does just that, interspersing accounts of Wimbledon games from 1975 with tales of his medical rounds and glimpses of his marital breakup. But at its core his is a brave and heart-baring story about how even a teacher of internal medicine could not see inside the person closest to him. The fact that it will speak to anyone who has looked with his heart instead of his eyes (just as Gunesekera's novel will appeal to anyone separated from...
...Brave words, and familiar. Clinton, the day after the 1996 Khobar Towers bombing that killed 19 American airmen in Saudi Arabia: "We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them...
When subpoenas and lies are gone, When obstruction shines upon, Then you throw your trump cards down, Twinkle, twinkle all brought down. Twinkle, twinkle Kenneth Starr, Now we see how brave...
That said, the moral atmosphere of the country is a brave new world compared with the one I grew up in. The murder in Jasper, Texas, of a black man who was dragged to his death by three white subhumans: 40 years ago, that town of 8,000--30% black--would have rallied round the subhumans. Today the mayor declared that the established bond between black and white would hold. And the dead man's family told opportunist politicians that he was not a national symbol...