Word: braver
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...going to work for candidates. I’m more interested in helping to build a movement that can pressure whoever the candidate is to be braver than they would be otherwise,” she says. “It’s always the citizenry that have to be empowered and active voices to force the politicians to do what we need them to do. Otherwise, it’s not gonna happen no matter who they...
...based, George Jonas' Vengeance, in 1998. But Spielberg shied away from it, in part, he says, because he had learned at his parents' knees that Middle East politics is such a difficult, passionately argued and unresolvable topic. "I'll leave it to somebody else," he recalls saying, "somebody braver than me." Then, in 1999, the persistent Kennedy prevailed on him to at least reconsider the matter. But two years later, 9/11 happened, and Spielberg felt the story would be perceived as exploitative. The fact that Spielberg could not get a script that in any way satisfied him--three were written...
...Halley's comet last blazed through the skies, some people were so afraid of the poisonous cyanogen vapors said to be in its tail that they barricaded themselves in their houses, sealing the windows and doors. As they cowered, they gulped down comet pills or sniffed on comet inhalers. Braver sorts wearing comet-shaped diamond hatpins or toting comet-knobbed walking canes flocked to rooftop parties at the old Waldorf-Astoria. In advertisements, bars of soap and cans of coffee were depicted flying through space, feathery tails in their wake. Comet mania was at fever pitch, and freewheeling entrepreneurs were...
...More than anything, one of the important aspects of my job is to make sure that people don’t get too fired up too soon,” Kummer said. “I keep in check some of the braver young bucks. Hubris is something that has to be kept in check, and sometimes hubris merits a bath in the Charles River...
...were being urged by braver and more sensible noncoms and one or two surviving officers to get off the beach and up to higher ground. But it would be some time before enough courage returned for us to attempt it. One or two times I was able to control my fear enough to race across the sand to drag a helpless G.I. from drowning in the incoming tide. That was the extent of my bravery that morning...