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Word: braveness (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Like other people who are humiliated and threatened, we talk now mostly about retribution. Washington echoes the brave calls of armchair generals from the provinces who would devastate the Bekaa Valley or demolish the Beirut airport or launch a search-and-destroy mission in the city. Retaliation may have its place when, in that rare instance, terrorists separate themselves from the fabric of innocent society. The better answer lies in every American's awareness and understanding that terrorism must be met on its own terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhetoric Gives Way to Reality | 7/1/1985 | See Source »

...used and specialty book stores dot several corners and fill at least three basements. For textbooks and general reading, your best bet is to start with the Harvard Coop. Most of the Square crowd lingers on the first floor with the bestsellers and picture books. But brave the escalator to check out the fiction and slightly scholarly tomes on the second level. Textbooks are on floor three. One reminder: return textbooks within three weeks of purchase, or you'll be stuck with them...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Cambridge Stacks | 6/23/1985 | See Source »

...those willing to brave the proverbial "dirt waters," the Charles is a veritable playground. Crew shells zip up and down, sailors tack to and fro bikers crust along the edges...

Author: By Timothy W. Plass, | Title: Ol' Man River | 5/2/1985 | See Source »

REAGAN INLANDS to honor the soldiers of the Third Reich. The mentality behind Reagan's tribute is that the Germans had brave soldiers too, who showed their courage and determination in the thick of battle just as the Allied soldiers did. But what were the Nazis fighting to preserve...

Author: By Christopher J. Farley, | Title: Throwing the Hatchet | 4/27/1985 | See Source »

THERE COMES a time in the lives of bipeds, both feathered and otherwise, when they must raise up arms, and wings, against tyranny long established and struggle for their inalienable rights as animals. Such was the brave effort last week to free Ibis L. Threskiornis '89 from his perch atop the Harvard Lampoon building where he had sat tethered by a steel cable for more than three decades...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fly! Be Free! | 4/25/1985 | See Source »

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