Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Last November, for instance, Radio Havana carried a peculiar peccavi, purportedly in the voice of Commander Jeremiah A. Denton, U.S.N. 485087, U.S.S. Independence. Sorrowfully admitting his "vicious, revolting crimes" in bombing "the innocent people and civilian buildings of the Democratic Republic of Viet Nam," the recorded confession continued: "The brave and determined workers of an antiaircraft battery shot down my aircraft." The tape went on to heap praise on "the kindness of heart of the Vietnamese government and people." It made Commander Denton sound just like the boy next door-to any boy in Hanoi...
...goal is quick results--no compromise. It is better to lose with a brave manifesto never achieved than to secure quiet success buried in ambiguities. There is little endurance. And, if there is defeat, escape into private experiences and fantasies always lies ahead...
...liked the Braves since they got rid of Gene Conley, Bill Bruton, Johnny Logan, Del Crandall, Milwaukee, and Eddie Mathews, but they're going to finish second this year. Clete Boyer is to third base as Mazeroski is to second and Hank Aaron and the Brave Bats make up for an invisible pitching staff. The Giants have Willie Mays, Juan Marichal, and the uncanny ability to never finish below third...
...rough. You try to be brave-not brave as the absence of fear, but brave as the courage to keep up and go on. You want to scream and run and hide, but there's nowhere to go. You try to look ahead and see nothing but an unending, unchanging series of days-boring, frustrating, futile. Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow-a tale told by an idiot, and you're the idiot. It's 10:30 and I'm tired. I'll just have to write Aunt Jean and Aunt Helen and Aunt Charlotte tomorrow...
...Bonn conference room crowded with bankers, aides and newsmen, Krupp sat silently while Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller spelled out what he called "a brave step that will remove unrest" about Krupp's future. In mid-April, the firm must appoint an "administrative council" of private but non-Krupp businessmen who will vote on all major management decisions. By the end of 1968, Krupp will be transformed into a public company, possibly some sort of foundation...