Word: braver
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Tokyo last week the Zenshinza company, which last winter presented John Drinkwater's Abraham Lincoln (TIME, Feb. 25), was game for a braver try: Lillian Hellman's Watch on the Rhine...
Burly Thomas B. Tucker of Corpus Christi, Tex. is no braver than anybody else about going to the dentist. Recently, after many postponements, Patient Tucker lowered himself into the chair of Dentist Robert Beauregard Black and said: "I am so nervous you can't touch my teeth without novocaine...
Quietly the House of Commons moved into the shank of a quiet afternoon. Before the half-empty benches was the Government's liberal Education Bill. Everyone loved the measure, everyone hoped it would be a cornerstone of the braver postwar Britain...
...Zeesen, Tokyo and Rome are beamed not only at certain areas of the earth. They are beamed at the delicately balanced human mind. To the bewilderment, corruption, terrorization of that target, crews of cold theorists and insulting riffraff have devoted themselves for years. In their war, as in the braver war waged by fighting men, the U.S. is now a formidable opponent-and is being attacked with every trick in the book...
...Brothers Warner were even braver. Disdaining Hollywood's horror of controversial issue (pro& anti-Custerites are among the most vigorously vocal of U.S. cultists), they sailed into the screen's first full-length exposition of the Custer legend with all canvas flying. Their version, which whitewashes Custer and bypasses history, is not likely to please either side...