Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...comma was approved by the subcommittee without dissent. Determined to avoid playing into Walter Mondale's hands by emphasizing the party's punctuation problems, Lewis tried to close ranks after the vote. Said he, through a brave smile: "I like commas...
...many as 100 villagers. When army units swept north through the Karamoja region, there were reports of more atrocities. After driving more than 20,000 farmers and cattle breeders from their homes, the soldiers obliterated villages, killed livestock and destroyed fields so that nothing would be left for those brave enough to return...
...Brave words, if not wise ones. But Henze, a sybaritic socialist with a well-developed taste for capitalist pleasures, has never let politics stand in the way of artistic success. He excoriates the Nazis, the treatment of blacks in the South and the nuclear destruction of Hiroshima, while overlooking such evils as Stalin's Gulag. Yet the opera's blinkered world view is secondary to its musical and dramatic substance-for the audience and, perhaps, for the composer as well...
...million Americans were out of work. One day after the 1932 Olympics began, Hitler's National Socialists won a plurality of seats in the German parliament. In 1932 Mussolini told his countrymen, "I foresee a long series of political, economic and military wars." And Aldous Huxley wrote Brave New World. And the opening ceremonies of the Olympics came off without a hitch...
...from A Clockwork Orange, officials would show gay men nude photos, administering drugs to make them ill when the subjects were male. The prisoners, naturally, learned to register false enthusiasm for female nudes, according to Poet Heberto Padilla, who insists that "manly" homosexuality was rampant in the regime. One brave and touching transvestite, named...