Word: braving
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Base outside Washington. They were waiting on the tarmac when the Egyptair Boeing 707 touched down, bringing Sadat from Paris, where he had dropped off his wife Jihan and his two-year-old grandson Sherif Marei, who was to receive medical treatment. At Andrews, Sadat praised Carter for the "brave and gallant act" of calling the summit. In a swipe at Begin, he warned: "No one has the right to block the road to peace. This is no time for maneuvers and worn-out ideas. It is time for magnanimity and reason...
...heard, probably for the first time in his life, a long-haired youth plucking a guitar and singing folk melodies, 16th century chamber music and a dazzling variety of Yugoslav folk dances. The biggest Chinese applause, as well as barely suppressed giggles, was reserved for a somewhat faulty-if brave-Yugoslav rendition of a Chinese folk song, The North Wind Blows...
...recent disclosures offended him, Kennedy-who did not get to read the stories in advance-says that is not so. "Our family has always kept things private," he says, "but once Joan decided it was best for her to talk openly about the problem, I thought it was very brave." Her honesty, in fact, had benefits for both of them. Now everything was in the open; there would be no more questions about where Joan was and how she was. Some politicians, including those at the White House, viewed the Kennedy confession much more coldly-as smart politics...
...country strong enough, brave enough and proud enough to cancel the Olympic Games in Moscow unless Shcharansky and Ginzburg are released...
...breathlessness and hyperbole in the British press ? "We could get baby farms, mass-produced kids, 1984 six years early!" exclaimed London Daily Express Editor Derek Jameson? the Brown venture fell far short of ushering in a Brave New World. Like countless other women with fertility problems, Lesley Brown suffered from a fallopian tube disorder. In their al most fanatic insistence on secrecy, her doctors declined to say whether the tubes were missing or merely blocked. Whatever the trouble, it was apparently serious enough to prevent her from becoming pregnant...