Word: braved
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...cannot be placed in a regular classroom situation, it must be determined whether he is "suitable" for the special classes given in the public schools. If no public class is found which meets the child's needs, the parents a faced with a difficult choice: either to brave the long waiting lists and phenomenal expenses of a private school or institution, or to give their child no education...
...fanfare, U.S. distillers last year brought on the market a new drink called light whisky. After years of effort, liquor firms got the Government to change its quirky distilling regulations and permit them to produce a smooth, flavor-thin whisky that they thought would appeal to modern tastes. A brave bevy of brands entered the lists Royal American, Galaxy, Honey-Go Lite, Free Spirit, Northern Light and others. Sadly for this latter-day charge of the Light Brigade, it has been Balaklava all over again. With Scotch to the right of them, bourbon to the left of them and vodka...
...minder Joe Bertagna stopped shots that made the brave men in Section 18 cringe with fear while Pete Proulx got in front of stuff that made the Pi Eta boys pound their seats in rage...
...moral superiority. Spitting on the flag is about as effective a challenge to the Establishment as sticking pins in a wax effigy of the Pentagon. The externals of America are, at best, only expressions of a fragile ideal. The land of the free and the home of the brave is not a boast, but a hope. Liberty and justice for all is not a headline, but a desire...
...anxiety of the last few months has been the anxiety of indecision. We have not known what to do. There is nothing more wearing on the courage of a brave people than to know that it is bound by the shackles of inaction, that in spite of all its strength it must await the weakness of the most timid of its leaders...