Word: brazenness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...will come when Boreas will be in brash and brazen bluster. Against that day, we would commend to all lectures who occupy the nine-to-ten hour a thawing out period for fingers with small warmth of coursing blood in them...
Both national and Wisconsin Democratic leaders were in a swivet. Should they read Bobrowicz out of the party-and thus confess their error? Should they keep him and try to brazen it out? Or should they piously denounce Communism and let it go at that? Most forthright reaction came from Representative Andrew Biemiller, Democrat from the adjoining 5th District. He was against letting Communists crawl into office disguised as Democrats...
That really ignited Phil Donnelly. He flayed the union leaders for urging police officers to "break the laws," derided their "brazen scheme to go underground." The mere existence of the union, he cried, would "breed divided loyalty, suspicion, distrust and confusion." A strike by a police department, he said, "would be a rebellion against government itself...
Between warm afternoon showers, thousands of shirt-sleeved Cuban men and cotton-frocked girls trooped down Havana's laurel-hedged Prado. In brazen defiance of the armistice decreed for election week, they shouted the names of rival mayoral and congressional candidates. Sound trucks blared the notes of a conga, then broke out with political exhortations. In the Parque Central, dusky ti-1.trope performers attracted a crowd, then made campaign speeches from their precarious perches. In the sweltering evening, a great neon campaign sign, towed by an amphibious jeep, swam ghostlike along the harbor front...
Yugoslavia looked more than ever like a police state. Belgrade street scenes were like cutbacks to old newsreels of the rise of Naziism. Booted feet tramped out their brazen songs. OZNA, the Communist secret police, was supervising the election campaign. Tito's big army showed no inclination to demobilize...