Word: braved
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Harried commuters waited while another train was brought in to tow away the damaged one and clear the line to restore service. Bus shuttles were available during the delay, but many commuters chose to wait on the stationary trains rather than brave the heavy afternoon traffic...
...News and World Report, was arrested by the Soviet Union on charges of espionage, the national press was on his side. Major news organizations, which are normally skeptical of our government's explanations, seemed all too willing to believe that Daniloff was not a spy, but rather a brave reporter who had been set up by the Soviets...
...enough for an associate professor like Brinkley to teach classes so popular that every year a lottery is held to keep admission to 500 people, to write books which win prestigious prizes, and to brave the perils of dining hall food to lunch with students? Does an ambitious junior faculty member at Harvard have to be as old the institution itself in order to gain tenure there? Melanie Cohen...
...wiser. It is appropriate too that Cage, 22, seems younger, jerkier than his girlfriend, because, being a guy, he is. With his dinky voice and fake teeth, professing ardor in a gold lame jacket or smacking the dumbness out of his forehead, Charlie can endear or exasperate. Cage's brave turn teeters toward caricature, then tiptoes back toward sympathy...
...taxpayers have begun to evaluate investment schemes from a completely opposite perspective: they will be looking for income instead of losses. Says Klein, the New York dentist: "We have grown up believing that sheltering income against taxation is more important than making money. Now we must adjust to the brave new world in which you keep more of what you make without gimmicks. It's too simple and sensible to be American. It makes you insecure." Newly eager to make profits, investors have begun looking for ways to boost their income, for example, by raising the rent on properties they...