Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Gandhi had been lucky in his adversary, for the British, though they imprisoned him, did not silence him. His message spread to the Indian masses and abroad, to touch the world's conscience. How many similar brave defiances, unheard, unchronicled, have taken place in Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself the world will never know. But sometimes the protests of entire nations do get heard. Revolts and mass demonstrations broke out in East Germany in 1953, in Poland and Hungary in 1956, in Czechoslovakia in 1968, and in Poland again in 1981. Each was crushed. Hungary...
...center of the Polo Grounds, Manhattan, Champion Dempsey forcibly induced "Bull" Firpo to lie immobile and unconscious for ten consecutive seconds. When the ten seconds were up, Dempsey walked over to Firpo, picked him up, told him he was a brave fellow...
...hitting prose of the century, he has used his skill and power to smash rose-colored spectacles right & left, to knock many a genteel pretence into a sprawling grotesque. Detractors have called him a bullying bravo, have pointed out that smashing spectacles and pushing over a pushover are not brave things to do. As the "lost generation" he named* have grown greyer and more garrulous, so his own invariably disillusioned but Spartan books have begun to seem a little dated; until it began to be bruited that Hemingway was just another case of veteran with arrested development and total recall...
...Brave words-and in a sense, incredibly true. On that late winter day in 1953, the two unknown scientists had finally worked out the double-helical shape of deoxyribonucleic acid, or DNA. In DNA's famed spiral-staircase structure are hidden the mysteries of heredity, of growth, of disease and aging-and in higher creatures like man, perhaps intelligence and memory. As the basic ingredient of the genes in the cells of all living organisms, DNA is truly the master molecule of life...
...view of things has been almost spiritually important to recent generations because the book cooperated perfectly with this age's picture of the future. Besides 1984, the two main Utopian-indeed, antiutopian-texts of the time have been Yevgeny Zamyatin's We and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. They stand in stark contrast to the visions of past ages: Plato's Republic, Augustine's City of God, Dante's Paradise, More's Utopia, Rousseau, Kant, Marx and the American Dream, which saw the millennium in everything new. No longer. Our antiutopian visions...