Word: brazen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could I be so brazen as to write in the book that my "host" was Christopher Bishop? But to put anyone else's name would habe been to lie. I couldn't do that. So I wrote nothing in the sign-out book. And someone had noticed...
...devil to spend on us," she adds. Despite the stiff competition a young man might find at a Thursday afternoon tea or an early evening jolly-up, it was still he who had to initiate any private dates. Sex was naturally a topic of great fascination, but few were brazen enough to discuss it in public, let alone defy their guardians to spend the night in a Harvard room. "We were all just goggle-eyed at the thought of doing 'it'," recalls Morss...
...weeks later, bandits again launched a brazen operation, this time during the nightly curfew. They smashed locks and shutters on a number of prosperous shops in the Pushtun Market, and made off with more than $1 million worth of cash and jewelry. Functionaries of the ruling People's Democratic Party were quick to blame the crime on insurgents, who were said to be trying to embarrass the government. The rebels denied responsibility, insisting that only the official cadres could have acted with such impunity during the curfew...
Ritt's strength has never been humor, but he does understand what Field's forte is, namely, a sort of plucky vulnerability. Even when she is talking tough and acting brazen, there is an openness in her smile, an irreducible innocence in her large round eyes, that disarms the crankiest spirit. She is ably supported by Tommy Lee Jones, doing another of his backwoods lunks. Familiarity has bred a certain agreeable expertise in him, a goofy nobility that wears well...
...more of the CIA's dirty tricks? They toppled popular governments and substituted oppressive dictatorships in Iran, Guatemala and Chile, thus earning for America the hatred of freedom-loving people in those countries and elsewhere. Why should we fan anti-Soviet paranoia by implying that only they commit "brazen and brutal" aggression, as in Afghanistan. In recent years the U.S. has intervened militarily in the Dominican Republic and in Viet Nam to impose governments favorable to us. We do not need a renewed imperialist image but a people-loving image...