Word: bravoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...tour of Rome. Everest-conquering Nepalese Guide Tenzing Norgay squeezed in a Vatican visit and a papal audience. "So this is Tenzing, the famous Sherpa," said Pope John XXIII, beaming. "Bravo, bravo, we all need to ascend more and more." Later, Buddhist Norgay summed up, imprecisely, the brief encounter: "The Pope is very likable, a very holy person, but it's hard to explain what a man feels in his presence...
...Bravo for Alec Gushing. Why waste time catering to cash customers when the State of California is willing to dole out $4,000,000, and then Uncle Sam, not to be outdone, forks over an equal amount. Gushing gets my vote for snob-con man of the year. HERB AMMERMULLER Great Neck...
...Bravo for those 61 lawyers in Arkansas who, with principle and courage, have come forward for the opening of the Little Rock high schools on an integrated basis [TIME, Sept...
...white twin-engined Beechcraft taxied out to the runway at Phoenix's Sky Harbor airport, a ghostly shape in the pre-dawn greyness. "Beech 72 Bravo ready to go," reported Pilot Barry Morris Goldwater, the junior Senator from Arizona, to Phoenix Tower. He turned to one of his passengers. "This is the time of year I like," he said with a grin. It was campaign time, and Barry Goldwater, who had risen that morning at 4 and skipped breakfast, faced the bitterest fight of his short, happy political life...
...tower cleared 72 Bravo for takeoff, and Goldwater lifted the Beech up, over the emerald quiltwork of irrigation land, over the purple Rincon peaks, over the state whose every wrinkle he knows and loves, heading southeast for the first stop of the day in his campaign to defend his U.S. Senate seat against Democratic Governor Ernest McFarland...