Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...many of us so-called radical or progressive members of the medical profession are foolhardy enough to brave the wrath of the Old Guard of medicine?maybe it is a martyr complex or something?and speak right out in meeting...
...guilder should go the way of the yen, pound and dollar, it is certain that Indonesia would increase her sales. But is it certain that the yen, pound and dollar will not dance on down an insane spiral with no bottom? And should Dutchmen join in such a dance? Brave Retreat. In The Hague last week Premier Colijn introduced his new Cabinet thus: "We will defend the guilder against devaluation! The people of The Netherlands must maintain their spirit and assist the Government in fighting the Depression under adverse circumstances!" This sounded as if the Premier had an aggressive program...
Since Primo Carnera lost the world's heavyweight boxing championship, Italy has been pleased to insult him even more consistently than his detractors in the U. S. When Carnera playfully suggested that he must have been drugged before the fight in which he was a brave loser to Negro Joe Louis last June, the Italian Boxing Federation ordered him to stop talking about the bout. When Carnera applied for a passport to return to the U. S.. Achille ("Pantherman") Starace, Secretary General of the Fascist Party, ordered it canceled. Reason: "Carnera's showing is a dishonor...
...think we routed Mussolini's tanks in the skirmish at Ualual?" roared a chief. "We routed them with cattle! Our bullets would not pierce the steel monsters, ,o we stampeded our herds against them. In the blinding dust raised by the brave beasts' hoofs our valorous warriors rushed upon the blinded Italian cowards! We shoved our rifles into the gun holes of their tanks-Bang! Bang! Bang!-We took possession of the bullet-proof machines...
...than imitated. A man automatically took possession of his wife's younger sisters if he wanted them. But he could not speak to his mother-in-law, nor could she speak to him. While adultery was sometimes punished, it involved no disgrace, and it was considered beneath a brave's dignity to show jealousy. For two weeks each year the Crow engaged in a curious custom of wife-stealing, and after a general reshuffling of households the stolen wives were usually turned loose, could enter any wigwam save that of a onetime husband. Gray-bull, a chief...