Word: braved
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...there is some comfort in admitting that our world back then was not as safe as we thought; and it may not now be quite as dangerous as it seems. It helps to find people whose fears are whirling out of control, because they make you feel sane and brave by comparison. A rich couple in Coral Gables, Fla., buys gas masks and chemical suits for the whole family; bemused neighbors inquire whether they are designer label. At least one Hollywood celebrity asks his security consultant about liquidating assets and burying gold in his backyard. OUTBREAK TRAINING reads the sign...
...thousands. Consigned to history are the luxuries of curbside check-in, e-tickets and the right to carry a corkscrew onboard. Peter Hannaford, a passenger aboard United Flight 564 from Denver, wrote in the Washington Times about the pilot's remarks that day: "I want to thank you brave folks for coming out today," the pilot said. "We don't have any new instructions from the Federal Government, so from now on, we're on our own." He reassured passengers about improved airport security, but then he went on. "If someone were to stand up, brandish something such...
...American landscape was one long Memorial Day parade; flags were so precious they were stolen. Yet it was clear that people ached to live bigger lives, to find some way to be a brave and generous part of what most of us were consigned to watch on television. In Napa Valley a four-year-old boy with only one arm cleaned his family's house and took his dollar in pocket money down to the local fire brigade to send to the fire fighters in New York. A five-year-old girl in Audubon, N.J., renamed all her dolls George...
...corps of flight attendants twice: first with the Sept. 11 murders, then with deep layoffs planned because of the dip in travel. American's flight attendants have been working without a contract for 2 1/2 years; just recently, they voted a new agreement into place. Some of those brave enough to stay at work will not be allowed...
...being a prostitute and a puppet of the West. Her brother Aslam was furious when she published her first poem as a teenager, and he forbade her to use Larik, the family name. She then adopted her father's first name, but it took her ages to feel brave enough to write again. Three years ago, she received death threats that made her consider staying at home and never writing again. But she re-emerged as outspoken as ever, walking out of a poetry reading that began with a religious verse and arguing on a TV panel discussion that Islam...