Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...produce Christlike figures such as Lech Walesa [Jan. 4] and his brave countrymen, then 1981 was not a bad year for humanity...
THESE DAYS even your average Joe on the streets knows there's something behind the facade of big ideas and brave leadership called U.S. Government. Average Joe understands that grand policies emerge from purely political settlements between rapacious special interests; that the experts who package these policies often don't have much faith in what the boss is preaching; and that the warrantees on schemes to save our society tend to run out shortly after election day. But what he may not realize is that an entire species of not-so-evil people spend their lives working within the Washington...
...students make no big thing of their connection to the hunger striker. A couple of boys were once caught playing a game called Bobby Sands, but that's about the extent of it. Ask Stephen and Malachy, both 15, what they think of Sands' decision, and they answer simultaneously, "Brave." "Foolish...
Joseph would undoubtedly say "Brave," and he would probably urge the same answer on Paul. But alone, away from Joseph, Paul is more himself...
...After the Jews they are the people I love most." He talks in a smoky whisper. "First, because the white men came and made them suffer, and they didn't deserve that. Second, I love how brave they are. I sympathize with them." Asked if his sympathies go toward all oppressed peoples, he says yes, "if they are innocent, and if they are not against us." Asked specifically about the Palestinians, he answers that he is still trying to make up his mind about which side is right. Yet he is troubled by the fighting...