Word: braving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dispatching district commissioners to towns it controls in southern and western Uganda. The Front was also prepared to establish a new government in Kampala once the city was firmly under its control. No one could be quite sure when that would happen. Amin might decide to make a brave last stand at Jinja, or he might simply flee to either Libya or neighboring Kenya. But it was also not beyond belief that Big Daddy would simply disappear into the bush, and carry on with a government-in-exile somewhere in the wilds of northern Uganda...
...psychopharmacology at Stanford, thinks the current exploits of his field are on a par with Einstein's revolutionary formulation E = mc˛. Says he: "The discovery of the neuroregulators may prove as important to humanity as that equation. We are on the edge of a new era." Also a Brave New World of mind-controlling drugs. Before long, according to some researchers, it will be possible to inject or extract chemicals to get almost any desired behavior, good...
After matching mashies with Flagler at "The Ponce," the Crimson contingent will brave the hazardous marshes of Sawgrass Country Club, a course which is so treacherous that the Professional Golf Association refused to hold its annual Tournament Players Championship (TPC) there this year. Last spring, Alexander was heading for a phenomenal sub-80 round on this monster only to have his dream thwarted by darkness on the 18th tee. This time, the Michigan state champion plans an early tee-off in hopes of breaking the 80 barrier...
...others: some might just have a bigger supply of this natural analgesic. It may even suggest, moreover, one concrete way in which human beings might assure their sense of happiness; yet this way-the ingestion of synthetic endorphins-is unnervingly like the drug-popping route to happiness envisioned in Brave New World. In all this, alas, nothing much is added to the question that has always nagged the brave old world: Just what is happiness...
Frances Sternhagen's Ethel is more than a comforter. She is a diminutive fortress of a woman. Brave, resilient, compassionate, she has spent a lifetime taming and pampering her paper lion. But with all that, she cannot seem to restore Norman's faltering appetite for living. In his first Broadway play, Ernest Thomp son, 29, soundly realizes that it takes young blood to send old blood coursing...