Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...were looking for the telltale buoys which distressed submarines try to send to the surface to show where they are. (A buoy located the Squalus.) The crowd around the shipyards grew bigger. After 15 hours the first news came ashore. Fourteen miles off Great Ormes Head, Wales, the destroyer Brazen had spotted something in the sea. It was not a buoy but part of the Thetis herself-her tail, sticking in the air like a diving porpoise...
...Brazen lowered boats. When her wireless operators tapped out messages on the protruding stern they thought they got back reassuring messages from within. The Admiralty released its first statement: "There is nothing to indicate that the men are other than safe...
...Obvious lack of feeling is the essential characteristic of most of the pictures. But in place of deep and reverberating content, harshness and vigor often bordering on sensationalism is found. Head of a Woman, by Nolde, a blatant example of art at its lowest point, is a brazen conglomeration of bright colors and an embodiment of a cynical and completely unsympathetic point of view. If all aesthetic standards, sensitive taste, and a feeling for harmony were suddenly swept from the world, Nolde's painting, even then, would have difficulty in maintaining its position as a work...
...second round. He died beautifully at the edge of the stage, heaving his final gasp practically in Vag's face. A moment later, Vag and the school kids all tried to get out of the same exit at the same time. The youngsters and their brazen school girl dates--those feline hellions with their startling curves, who had hissed vengefully at the dagger scene and necked vigorously throughout the banquet scene--now had little regard for a rheumatic oldster like Vag. Push as he might, he got nowhere until suddenly on his left he found a stairway leading down...
...with 22 of the Harlan County, Ky. coal operators many of whom had been scheduled to stand trial for violating the Wagner Act. Mr. Green, who has been trying to sign up the operators with his rival Progressive Miners of America, charged that the quid pro quo was a "brazen and unlawful" deal arranged by Mr. Lewis under which NLRB would withdraw its charges against the operators, the Department of Justice would quash its criminal indictments. This was promptly denied by U. M. W., NLRB, and the Department of Justice...