Word: braved
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...Brave Endeavor...
...expected you to encourage Nor man Cousins in his brave endeavor to start a new magazine. I had hoped it would be a "dead stodgy" ringer" Saturday for our Review dear and old not at "wordy all like and the present supermodern one from which Norman Cousins "stalked" away just in time - thank goodness...
...Slater doubled the purse with a gift of $125,000. "Fischer has said that money is the problem," he declared. "Well, here it is. My message to Fischer is: 'Come on out, chicken.' " Fischer came out instantly. Saying that the offer was "incredible, generous and brave" and "I gotta accept," he caught a jet to Reykjavik and arrived just five hours before the noon deadline set by the Federation Internationale des Echecs (F.I.D.E.), the governing body of world chess...
...natural" ice cream flavors they were making a big pitch for the counter-culture crowd. But they still attract the same tired working girls waiting for the bus, the sticky-fingered adolescents with jimmies on their chins, and the wide-eyed passers-through. No real ice cream connoisseur would brave these ice cream desperados when Brigham's is flanked by Bailey's and Baskin-Robbins...
...coast of New England down as far as Cape Cod, and pursued inland lakes and rivers to their sources exploring New France. He could not swim. He never managed to learn any Indian language. He had almost no sex life. But he could digest anything. He was also brave and resourceful, as well as the best mapmaker and navigator...