Word: braved
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...away the myths of his "superhuman kindness," he remains a peculiarly modest figure who wore a shabby waistcoat, worked 16-hour days and read extensively. (By contrast, Stalin did not know that the Netherlands and Holland were the same country, and no one in the Kremlin inner circle was brave enough to set him straight...
Sanger led by example. Her brave and joyous life included fulfilling work, three children, two husbands, many lovers and an international network of friends and colleagues. She was charismatic and sometimes quixotic, but she never abandoned her focus on women's freedom and its larger implications for social justice (an inspiration that continues through Ellen Chesler's excellent biography, Woman of Valor: Margaret Sanger and the Birth Control Movement in America). Indeed, she lived as if she and everyone else had the right to control her or his own life. By word and deed, she pioneered the most radical, humane...
...large number of e-mails against the bill did flood the group's e-mail list. But these visits and e-mails were prompted by vigorous and inflammatory messages sent out by those who opposed the original bill. We encourage the administrators of Harvard and, especially, Radcliffe to be brave enough to recognize once and for all that Radcliffe is no longer an undergraduate educational institution...
Suddenly, the fire alarm began its high caterwauling screech. An instant later, we, the Luau crew, protected from the elements only by aloha shirts, shorts, slippers, and a few layers of delicate flower leis, were asked to leave the building and brave the 20 degree weather. We trembled outside for about a half an hour, waiting for the fire department. The conversation drifted quickly from the initial euphoria of the success of the luau to how much we missed home and why the heck we were in Boston in the first place. "Why'd you come to Harvard?" someone asked...
Well, as a resident Quadling (a Currierite, to be exact), I'll let you into a little secret: You're wrong. You got Quadded? That's cause for celebrating--and I'm not just putting on a brave face to make the best of a bad situation. I maintain that the Quad provides the best housing at Harvard, hands-down, no question about...