Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...questioning--What did she know and when did she know it?--made it sound as though the story she was so proud of was somehow false, rather than incomplete. By the next day, she would be defending her parents to the New York Times, saying they "were the bravest people alive...
...dropped out during the two years it took her just to get into the Citadel [SOCIETY, Aug. 28]. Had her classmates at the school been kinder and more welcoming, she probably could have made it. Even though she quit, I still think she is one of the bravest women in the U.S.--certainly braver than most of the men in the Citadel. MATT CALCARA Overland Park, Kansas AOL: Cal Clan
...people live and work. We aren't solo flyers or secret agents. We are a squadron of team players dependent on our colleagues and increasingly on our machines to get us through our jobs. Often, because of those machines or those colleagues--or ourselves--we fail. And sometimes the bravest thing we can do is react quickly, boldly, gracefully to the failures and compromises we face every day. Getting along, getting by: it's a big subject the movies hardly ever touch...
Rabbis in the Nir seminary referred to Goldstein as "a hero, a holy man, a righteous man" in front of a thousand mourners, further adding that he would spend eternity in the company of Israel's bravest men and renowned sages. And one of the speakers (apparently not satisfied with the praises) added, "you are at a higher level than us...you did it for the sake of heaven...
...their complete disregard for proper protocol, Beavis and Butt-head insult everything sacred in the modern democratic regime. In this context, Kurt Andersen of Time provides genuine insight by terming "Beavis and Butt-head" as perhaps "the bravest show ever run on national television." And MTV's creative director, Judy McGrath, aptly identifies the genesis of this courage: the members of the MTV generation are "sick to death of being politically correct...