Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...year-old munitions inquiry committee. The majority had already moved to quash the findings on the ground that the guilty officers who had been stationed as a munitions purchasing board in Europe had long since been dealt with in military and civil courts. Last week Minority Senator Mario Bravo uprose once again and began making charges, far worse than anything the U. S. Senate committee had aired...
...charged that General José Belloni, head of the European purchasing board, had shared in at least $60,000 commissions paid his dentist-nephew. Alberto Jonchi, by Colt Co. Few doubted the nephew had been paid. Senator Bravo read letters to prove that the brave uncle had been paid...
...gone to press. And then in the leading editorial, we read that the resists of the questionnaire "would be of importance to any civilized society. It is of particular importance to a society, such as the American, which regards ignorance of sex problems as a national virtue and asset." Bravo! But a little later on we read. "If the statistics are released to the press, one can scarcely conjecture what the result would be. . . There must be an explicit promise that none of the statistics will be released for public consumption...
...rounds, the crowd howling for a knockout. But Carnera could neither knock his man down nor knock the stubborn, gold-toothed smile from his bloody face. By the end of the fight the early cheers for "Il Campionissimo" were nearly drowned by hoots, catcalls and loud cries of "Bravo Paulino" for the game loser...
...became the absolute dictator of New Mexico; indefatigable Bishop Lamy, hero of Willa Gather's Death Comes for the Archbishop; Billy the Kid, who "briefly ruled a region as large as France because he was faster on the draw than any other man in it"; Elfego Baca, Mexican bravo who got a sheriff's job by standing off a posse of Texan sharpshooters for 36 hours; many another border saint & sinner, hero & villain. Of the Penitentes, pseudo-Christian sect of flagellants, Fergusson tells bloody tales, bloodier rumors. The sect still flourishes (TIME, April 17). Its headquarters...