Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feel the air under my skis and my body like a cushion. The farther I jump, the more I feel the air, and I like those long jumps." Explains one admiring Finnish sports editor: "Recknagel's jump is a sort of diving, leaping, flying thing-and very brave...
Ever since Tibet's brave but abortive revolt against Red China in 1959, refugees have straggled across the border into India by twos and threes. Last month they came by the scores and even the hundreds. They were driven by hunger. The Chinese Communists have brought something Tibet has not known within living memory: famine...
...over the world were taken as part of the job. He developed a veteran's pride as he passed the word to the swaggering newcomers who joined him on the job, the pistol-packing service pilots who had been rushed through Army flight schools. "These were the brave aerial children who would soon go down in flame and history as the Eighth Air Force. Later, when we brought them back, the accoutrements were gone. They wore medals instead, and all the innocence was gone from their eyes." He learned the subtle variations of the air, how "the jungle skies...
Satan Back to Heaven? In his treatise De Mortalitate, written probably in A.D. 252 to comfort Christians during the ravages of a plague, Cyprian summed up the solaces with which men have long made do in the face of death: the fact that all the great and brave have suffered the same fate, the thought of death as a rest from labor and a surcease from sorrow, the idea that the good die young. But his main argument was that death for a Christian means "to be changed and reformed to the image of Christ and to the dignity...
Lippmann called for deceleration when the New Frontier hove into view. "The great task of quiet diplomacy," said he, "is to work out ways and means of keeping the critical questions from reaching the point of irreparable decision. It sounds brave and dashing to say that we must take the lead and act decisively to solve the problems of Laos and Cuba. But the fact is that these problems are, in the present state of the world, insoluble. By open diplomacy, which only too often means loud-mouthed diplomacy, we can do little to assuage, indeed much to exacerbate these...