Word: braving
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...diplomacy of military threat has had its opportunity, and Rome and Berlin, in spite of their brave words to the contrary, recognize this fact," he concluded...
What with the bomb planting, the brave manifestoes and the likes of the Sinn Fein gathering in the hills, these are times when an Irishman in England could do with a word or two first-hand from the old country. But the voice of Erin, Radio-Eireann, from its 100-kilowatt transmitter in Athlone, is having the devil's own time making itself heard anywhere at all. The villains outshouting her are three, and the loudest of these is Klaipeda, in Lithuania. Klaipeda's station LYY, a radio holdout, has steadfastly refused to join the Union Internationale...
...estimate of the outcome of the struggle. That government and those who support it may feel that it is better to die fighting in the defence of their cause than to submit tamely to the possible oppressions of General Franco's government. Though that attitude is a brave one, it would be neither sensible nor even praiseworthy...
Some 250 miles south of the capital, Santiago, lies the historic city of Chillán, founded in 1594 by Spanish Conquistadors and named after a brave chieftain of the fierce and never wholly conquered Araucanian Indians. The town is revered by Chileans because it is the birthplace of their George Washington, Bernardo O'Higgins.* Destroyed by a quake in 1853, it was rebuilt and until last week had a thriving population...
...Baltimore encouraged his Austrian colleagues and excoriated their Nazi enemies from a Washington pulpit in a way no German bishop would dare. "The madman Hitler and the cripple-minded Goebbels," he cried, "cannot silence the gentle and humble and courageous Cardinal Archbishop of Munich, nor can they silence the brave Innitzer [Archbishop of Vienna]. . . . No decent person can condone the actions of the madman Hitler and the cripple-minded Goebbels. . . . If Hitler does not like what I say about him and his cripple-minded Minister of Propaganda, let him take up the matter with Secretary of State Hull...