Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...called to help Kalb in Poland. With a Polish visa, prudently obtained back in August, he was able to fly directly to Warsaw and spend part of a day with Solidarity Leader Lech Walesa at church and at Walesa's home outside Gdansk. "The Poles are marvelously brave and calm," observes Amfitheatrof, who along with Kalb witnessed last week's emotional unveiling of the workers' monument in Gdansk. "Whatever the future holds for them has enormous implications for Eastern Europe and quite possibly the whole world...
...what a subject for an essay: Alexander the brave, the learned, the musical; Alexander the driven, the murderous, perhaps the mad. Alexander the god. Alexander the drunk. His head dominates the exhibition. In one room there is a congress of his heads, white heads on pillars as if on spears, all facing each other in objective admiration. The ones in the center of the room are spotlit from the ceiling; their shadows make stars on the carpet. It is said that Alexander's real head slept with a dagger and a copy of the Iliad under the pillow...
...unique chance to export their Islamic revolution by the sword. The mullahs have recruited their own irregular forces at hundreds of local mosques, and many of the clerics have taken military instruction themselves. Iran's "patriotic war" has also been joined by hundreds of seasoned leftist guerrillas, who brave clerical harassment in order to fight the common Iraqi enemy...
...Someone was giving a dance to cheer up the brave boys who were going to save the country--which I did. And there I was, 3000 miles away from my home in California just like a sitting duck," McCurdy said...
...black soldiers came raging across the river into town and posted a notice: "If we do not receive justice and fair play, which we must have, some one will suffer-if not the guilty, the innocent. It has gone far enough. Justice or death." It was a moment of brave anger in the 19th century, but it passed; the white sheepman was acquitted so quickly the jurors scarcely had to leave their chairs...