Word: braved
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...about time for a few brave souls to get in the vanguard to strike down the odiously hypocritical attitude which Christianity insists on maintaining towards sex . . . Let the "bluenoses" use their energy towards cleaning up some really important social evils of our time, things like overcrowded slums, teen-age dope addiction . . . disease and want of all kinds...
...soot-blackened spires of the Old Town and battlements of the ancient castle were brave with banners. Flags of many nations streamed gaily from each two-decker tram. Shop windows glittered with Scottish silver and tartans. Even dour taxi drivers got into the spirit of the thing and gave unsolicited lectures on local points of interest. The sixth Edinburgh International Festival of Music and Drama was in full swing...
These were brave words, and it was time that someone spoke them in Switzerland. Only trouble: they were never spoken. The day before Beck was to make his speech, an advance copy reached the Neue Zuercher Zeitung (circ. 70,000), Switzerland's most influential newspaper. Shocked to the core of their neutral souls, the editors alerted the National Day Committee and Zurich's Board of Education. Result: Beck delivered a pallid speech from which his blast at neutrality had carefully been blue-penciled...
...Stable. To begin with, and for a long time afterward, Sam, as even his own mother admitted, was "a poor looking object to raise." However, "I felt it my duty." she said, and she did; for, as Sam explained. Jane Clemens was a woman tender as she was brave-the kind who "always warmed the water before drowning the kittens." She was also, as Sam said seriously, a "beautiful spirit'' with a "great heart" and an "enchanted tongue." From her he drew the mother wit and nerve that carried him to success...
...Drogo is so decrepit that he is kicked out to make room for stronger men. Back in the city, utterly disillusioned by his wasted life, he is promptly attacked by a new enemy-death. Mustering his last reserves of discipline and courage, Drogo meets this fatal enemy with a brave smile. As he sees it, in his last moments, death only means that "The worst is over and they [i.e., the facts of life] cannot cheat you any more...