Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...only 30 students of the school's total enrollment of 900. Despite these limitations, H.E.C. expects opposition from the French cultural establishment. Nonetheless, says H.E.C. Professor Benjamin Stora, "to be competitive in international business today is to use a language other than French. In France, you have to be brave to say that...
...spirit of Burgess's mad old mom is irrelevant and near to tasteless. She is played by Lillian Gish, and the movies' oldest pro clearly understands that she is trapped in Sweet Liberty's dreariest neighborhood. She does her brash best to break loose, but her efforts are more brave than successful. Doubtless her first auteur, D.W. Griffith, warned her there would be roles like this. And movies like this, signaling good intentions at every turn, but never quite achieving them...
...bathrooms were no problem. We absconded with about six rolls from each hall. Thayer even had extra rolls on the sinks because everybody on one floor shared a bathroom. The women's rooms were slightly more difficult. But being brave and daring freshmen, we poked our heads in, ran in, stuffed as many rolls as possible into our knapsacks and walked out casually as if nothing had happened...
...cool heads and dispassionate judgments seldom prevail in a discussion of U.S.-Nicaraguan relations. The Sandinistas are either hard-core Communists with a cruelly totalitarian agenda or committed revolutionaries with a uniquely Latin American vision of the future. The U.S.-backed contras, on the other hand, are either brave freedom fighters or treacherous mercenaries. WARNING: entry into the debate may be hazardous to your reputation...
...section unanimously wishes to meet in the shantytown, it may, of course, do so. But given the difficulties of ascertaining unanimity in the face of teacher and peer pressures, it takes a brave person to dissent. As a matter of educational policy, courtesy to one's peers, and respect for the views of others, it would seem to me appropriate to participate in the shantytown after, rather than during, class...