Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reached the explosive stage last week on the night before shooting was scheduled to begin. Police arrested Sir Ranulph Twistleton-Wykeham-Fiennes, a 22-year-old lieutenant in the Royal Scots Greys with a 900-year-old pedigree in Burke's Peerage (family motto: "Look Here for a Brave Spirit") on charges of trying to set fire to an outhouse near the dam. A wine importer, Christopher Knight, 23, was also hauled in, accused of trying to blow up the dam itself. On the same night, police also apprehended a car carrying two more young men and a giant...
More people means longer queues at meal time, so this summer Quincy House will be open Monday through Friday to relieve the crowding in the Union. On weekends, however, everyone will have to brave the Union lines...
...have come here," President Johnson told the dignitaries assembled in the East Room, "to honor a very brave American soldier. The acts of extraordinary courage to which we pay tribute were not performed in hope of reward. They began with a soldier doing his duty-but went so far beyond the call of duty that they became a patriot's gift to this country...
...Aragonese, French-and finally back to Britain at the time of Edward II, whose brutal murder in 1327 provided a gory conclusion to Christopher Marlowe's biographical play. To Britons of Saxon descent who may still harbor resentment over the Norman Conquest, the fact that their Queen shares brave Harold Godwinson's blood can only come as a relief...
This most excellent canopy, the air, look you, this brave o'erhanging firmament, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire-why it appears no other thing to me than a foul and pestilent congregation of vapors...