Word: braver
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...self-imposed experts may be missing the boat. Allow me to be so bold as to suggest that the Democrats may very well spring for a braver choice: Elvis...
Like her contemporary Sylvia Plath, Sexton had a gift of the self- dramatizing and self-destructive kind. She was the mad housewife of Weston, Mass., beautiful if you caught her in the right light, "a possessed witch," as she thought of herself sometimes, "haunting the black air, braver at night." Both Plath and Sexton wound up as cautionary tales. In 1963 Plath stuck her head in an oven in London. Sexton told her psychiatrist, "Sylvia Plath's death disturbs me. Makes me want it too. She took something that was mine, that death was mine!" Eleven years later...
...anti-incumbent mood largely accounts for the defeat of the deficit- reduction package endorsed by the White House and congressional leaders. Most lawmakers who feel remotely threatened -- as well as every House member attempting to graduate to the Senate -- came out against it. Braver souls who supported the unpopular combination of tax hikes and service cuts are now being savaged for their stand. In Vermont, Republican Peter Smith, a freshman Congressman, is running no better than even against a well-known independent, Bernard Sanders. A former Socialist mayor of Burlington, Sanders has railed for years against establishments of all kinds...
While most people ride roller coasters for the sheer fun of it, Woodbury believes there is also a psychological dimension to their popular appeal. Says he: "Coaster riding is a way of living through, confronting and conquering our fears. You feel a little braver and stand a bit taller when you leap off the train after it returns to the station...
...based on an ancient formula, practically a folk remedy: a small isolated community is disturbed first by mysterious rumblings, then by alarming disappearances and deaths, after which large, smart, implacable creatures manifest themselves and desperate defenses are improvised by a cast that is not obviously wiser or braver than the average audience...