Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stumpy Charles Abraham Halleck strolled into the Speaker's lobby of the House of Representatives wearing the sanguine smile of an Indian brave preparing to scalp a New Frontiersman. "I think we always had the votes to beat this one." said the Republican House minority leader. "And I think we still do.'' No matter how often the House Democrats counted the noses, no matter how hard they pleaded, cajoled and threatened, they could not come up with the magic number needed to pass President Kennedy's must bill to boost the $1 minimum wage...
...still there. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru has been heard to complain, but has done little else. Last week, as the Indian Parliament's new session got under way, pent-up tempers exploded. "Have we grown so soft?" demanded Asoka Mehta, leader of the Praja Socialist Party. "Surely the brave soldiers of India have never said they would not march." Cries of "cold feet" rang out, and one M.P. demanded that Nehru "apologize" to the nation...
King Kong brave as a lion
...morale what it lacks in morality. "England," says the colonel proudly, "always supplies the right man for the job. Even if it's the wrong job." Along the sound track at appropriate moments float snatches of martial music, and after B-day ("our finest hour"), many a brave mug's eye is misty as he bids his mates farewell. Happily, the well-mannered British police, always ready to give quod pro quid, arrange for a touching reunion of The League-in quarters provided by Her Majesty...
...novel, catching some of the steppe-wide sweep of his epic And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), brims with Sholokhov's vast love of Russia and all Russians, Red or White, workers or shirkers. When an anti-Communist is shot dead, a Communist leader muses. "He was a brave fellow, he didn't know what fear was." A captured White officer goes off to execution with a theatrical nourish denied the grubby Red policemen he killed. Even the hussy, Lukeria, though she has debauched several commissars and given aid to the Whites, does not come to the expected...