Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...proved, among other things, that men of quite divergent attitudes found in it evidences to support their stoutly held positions. Senator Knowland could see a line drawn and a determination to stand firm in Asia. Premier Chou En-lai denounced it loudly as "a barefaced war cry" and a "brazen threat of agression." But to Britain's Sir Anthony Eden, who has made a fine art of picking out what he finds most useful in others' policies, the key Eisenhower phrases were: "We would welcome action by the United Nations which might...bring an end to the active...
...Diana Stevenson both performed with accurate phrasing and intonation, but Miss Colish's sound completely overpowered her partner's smaller tone. Mr. Shapiro let the orchestra become simply a support for the soloists. This may not be authentic concerto grosso style, but it is greatly preferable to the brazen display of Interpretation" offered by some other conductors...
Chou En-lai's brazen attempt to separate Britain from the U.S. shocked many. "The Chinese are showing their hand," said the Manchester Guardian, "with almost insulting frankness." The conservative Time and Tide reminded its readers of the British tradition that M.P.s traveling abroad "should say nothing, do nothing and allow themselves to be involved in no situations which would be likely to cause embarrassment to the Government of their own country . . . This makes the conduct of Mr. Attlee and his colleagues the more amazing and reprehensible." The Economist called Attlee & Co. the "Chiltern Set," drawing a parallel with...
...lived to see Emily happily married to young Architect Edwin Lutyens. (She is now 80 and edited the letters herself.) To read A Blessed Girl is to understand the why and wherefore of the Victorian novel, with its passion for brazen scoundrels, innocent girls and rescuing heroes. Such conflicts were not mere fiction; they were the very spice of Victorian life. Emily herself found it hard to decide whether her reaction to her tragedy was "happiness or misery," but her mother, respectable Lady Lytton, was not undecided at all. Wrote Emily: she was "bitterly disappointed that it has all come...
...Uncle Joe" Cannon, in the revolt of 1910. The speakership was whittled down almost to its purely procedural functions. Since then the Speaker's powers have been gradually increasing again, with Joe Martin's (and before him, Sam Rayburn's) subtle cloakroom tactics substituting for the brazen railroading of Czar Reed...