Word: brazening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are those who argue that human beings have never been able to deal effectively with the reality of death. Man, they say, is just as neurotic in his every-day fear of death as the escape artists who invite it. But the escape artist is more daring, more brazen; he seems to face death nobly, even to embrace it openly. Surely there is something of human dignity in the art. At its most metaphoric level, an escape act is near-death, followed by miraculous salvation--the archetype of damnation and resurrection. Its practitioners agree; for Houdini, Bigelow...
...massacre was a severe blow to Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos' hopes that a cease-fire signed with the Muslim rebels last December might continue, for the insurgents' brazen self-confidence suggests that they have been receiving fresh weapons from abroad. Observers fear a full-scale resumption of the government's anti-insurgency campaign that at its peak, cost Philippine forces 75 dead and 300 wounded weekly...
Eugene Riback, the owner of Harlem's Simon Furniture Co., took stock of his wrecked four-story store, behind the protective armor of private guards toting pistols and leashing attack dogs. Two brazen thieves ran in, grabbed a washing machine and headed to the street. One of the guards pointed his gun at a looter's head, three feet away. The intruder snarled: "You either kill me or I go out the door with the washer." He kept going, and the security man sheathed...
...Arizona, in fact, has become the chief corridor for narcotics entering the U.S. now that Mexico has replaced Turkey as the leading source of heroin. The mobsters have gone unmolested, says the report, because "until recently the prosecutorial system has been marked by incompetence, fuzzy or nonexistent law and brazen bribe taking...
Earlier in the week, as a sign of the Kremlin's displeasure with Carter's human rights stand, Pravda pointed to a plenitude of starving children, black ghettos, bugging and police surveillance in the U.S. and to other "brazen violations of the rights of American citizens." At the same time, the Soviets sought to blame Washington's criticisms on a Jewish conspiracy. Writing for Tass, Political Commentator Yuri Kornikov charged that "Zionist organizations" in the U.S. were more and more a major source of "anti-Soviet noise about the question of civil liberties in the U.S.S.R...