Word: bravo
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer announced the gist of the agreement to the Bundestag at Bonn, the news was greeted by cries of "Bravo!" and "Sehr gut!" The Western powers had actually conceded more than Adenauer and his government had expected to get. Last week the Chancellor and the Western High Commissioners began negotiations to put the Paris agreement to work. (The Germans loved the word "negotiations"-it gave them a standing as a semi-sovereign nation which they had not known since the war.) Vast difficulties still remained, including the possibility that in this week...
Steinmann entered the cage in awful silence. He tripped and quickly saved himself. The lions snarled, but none of them moved from the tight phalanx they had formed in the cage's center. Finally one jumped on a pedestal. "Bravo!" shouted Lawyer Valensi. Two minutes later another lion lazily climbed onto his pedestal. "Fini," cried Circus Master Bouglione. "Get him out of there. He doesn't know what he's doing. He'll make a buffet lunch for those lions...
...streets and squares to enjoy the strange spectacle . . . When a cloud of smoke appeared in the air to make an explosion, all clapped and shouted. Applause was greatest when the balloons blew over the Austrian forces and exploded, and in such cases the Venetians added cries of 'Bravo!' and 'Good appetite...
Corn & Courage. Any bull that turns tail and runs is promptly tagged for sale or slaughter. To the rest, sharp-eyed experts award ratings which, in addition to B.P., include B.T. (Bravo Tarde), B. (for Bravo) and S. (Superior). By association with tamer bulls, the grass-raised fighters are gradually taught to eat muscle-building portions of corn, barley mash, chickpeas and beans. Vaqueros on quick-footed ponies place the food on one hill, water on another several miles away. Shuttling between the two, La Punta bulls develop the sure-footed power that has enabled them at times to throw...
Aside from physical development, the breeders strive for those elusive and never-certain qualities summed up in the word bravo-comprised not of treacherous bloodlust, nor of fear, but chiefly of noble anger...