Word: braved
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...dominance on the northern plains was threatened by the Americans' plans to begin trading with the neighboring tribes. One morning, while camping in what is now Montana, Lewis awoke to a struggle between an underling and an Indian who was trying to steal a rifle. Moments later, one Blackfoot brave lay fatally stabbed, and another was bleeding from the gut, cut down by a bullet from Lewis...
...General George Rogers Clark, had led raids that kept the lower Great Lakes region out of British hands. As an Army officer, William had trekked the Ohio Valley, leading troops at least once in a skirmish with Indians. "He is a youth of solid and promising parts, and as brave as Caesar," reported a family member...
...asked for peppermint stick ice cream, no one ever said, 'It's seasonal.'" But even ice cream gets boring after a while, so Susie turns her attention back to earth. She watches as the shock waves of her death spread slow-motion havoc among her family and friends - her brave but vulnerable dad, her precocious younger sister, her bewildered classmates, the boy she had a crush on. She watches dispassionately as her killer - the fastidious, emotionally damaged Mr. Harvey - carefully disperses her body parts (the hunt for Mr. Harvey gives the book a fierce narrative energy). She watches her mother...
...public anxiety to their advantage. Democratic efforts to exploit the Enron scandal failed to resonate with voters. Nor have they found a way to sell the return of the deficit as an election issue: while many Democrats have been critical of President Bush's tax cut, few have been brave enough to call for scaling it back...
...those who would become successful cable operators in Europe must step over the bodies of brave people, including Microsoft's own Bill Gates, and pick their way through cultural minefields. Premium cable TV has been a bust across most of the Continent, where people spend more time in cafes and pubs, and less in front of the tube, than Americans do. When Europeans watch TV, they're used to getting high-quality programming on state-subsidized channels. Only a few years ago, German media giant Bertelsmann gave up entirely on the floundering pay-TV market. Dutch TV production company Endemol...