Word: braved
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...thought of his family. "I was terrified that my parents weren't going to be able to go on after I was gone." There was a student in front of him, also under a desk. He didn't know her name, but they kept eye contact. "She was brave. I don't think she cried. We just stared at each other under the desks." When the police finally arrived, says Violand, it was "just me and that one girl next...
...Rudd likes the banter. He's quick-witted, knows his Simpsons lines ("I didn't do it") and a scary amount of celebrity trivia. As a control freak, Rudd knows this shtick can backfire in a flash. It's crazy-brave, but the nerdish dad seems to be titillated by these encounters. Crossing over, Rudd last week took his club act to the safer, anesthetized realm of morning television to grab the oldies. On Mornings with Kerri-Anne, Rudd spoke Mandarin, danced the rumba with his co-host, laid bricks, cooked with chocolate, dispensed marriage advice and mixed pap with...
...Jerry’s ice cream parlors across the country. As volunteer Cassy Kemmer worked on turning a seven-year-old from boy to devil, she said that Harvard students had not yet taken advantage of her artistic services. “They’re not brave enough, I guess,” she said. Volunteers from environmental groups, including Campus Climate Challenge, were working to make sure that the line kept moving, according to store manager Joe B. Magnant. Magnant noted that it was good for business to advocate for global warming awareness. But, he said jokingly...
...Harvard students who completed the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to downtown Boston didn’t just brave a grueling race...
...next time someone you know ravesabout a dish detergent or motor oil, consider this: you might be on the receiving end of a clever marketing campaign. It's a brave new world for people whose job it is to sell you things, what with consumers' TiVo-enabled ability to skip over ads they don't want to see, and their Internet-empowered freedom to find out all the stuff left out of a cheery 30-sec. TV spot. That's driving marketers to all sorts of new places, including your circle of friends--a trend that has produced some...