Word: braver
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...wives of both men have been im measurably helpful: as a constant companion on Dick Nixon's campaigns and world tours, Pat has been well informed, indefatigable and courageous ("She was braver than any man I ever saw," said a military aide after Caracas). Emily Lodge, receiving high-ranking guests with her mellowed husband in her cerise and white drawing room of their Waldorf Towers apartment, is a portrait of manner-born grace and warmth...
...because he has not yet learned to doubt his teachers. It was made easier in the satellites because the parents could not effectively refute what was taught. Some parents dared not interfere because of the fear that their children might, with innocent words, betray them to the school authorities. Braver parents did what they could to plant seeds of truth in their children. Some declared in desperation, "I would rather have no children than foster a communist...
...joined the search. It was no ordinary ship, buttressed with armor plate, throbbing with power and bristling with the safety devices of a modern age, that faced the furies of Hurricane Carrie some 500 miles southwest of the Azores, but a tall and graceful relic of an older and braver day: the 3,103-ton, four-masted bark Pamir...
...Though braver than TV, radio still intends to stay friends with convention. In putting on last week's opening Stan Freberg Show (Sun. 7:30-8 p.m., CBS Radio), network executives eased their hypertension by scissoring out topical references to the Gaza Strip (it might offend Arabs and Zionists) and a simulated H-bomb explosion over a fictionalized Las Vegas (it might offend the State Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, the governor of Nevada, or somebody's aunt in Iowa). "Now I know what killed Fred Allen!" Stan Freberg cried, and complained of "panicky network people and panicky...
...Congratulations on naming the Hungarian Freedom Fighter. Since the embattled American farmers stood at Concord in 1775, there has been no greater and finer and braver blow struck for human liberty and freedom than that by these modern sons of Thaddeus Kosciusko...