Word: brazenness
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...Such brazen balancing of vast tracts of Siberian snow against much more densely populated and industrially important areas of the U.S. was promptly pronounced "outrageous" in the Pentagon. There were other items in the Soviet package that proposed even more one-sided disarmament of the West: a reduction in forces that would leave the U.S. with too few men to keep up its NATO commitments, and a scheme for setting up ground control posts that would bring every part of Europe and the U.S. under surveillance-except the Russian heartland...
...last month), became the elegant arbiter of sexual dalliance. The Art of Love has no four-letter words, only four-letter situations. Written in a sportively professorial tone, it tells the young amorist where to pick up a girl, how to outfox a jealous husband or mistress, how to brazen out an infidelity (lie about it). It also offers a whole dictionary of lovers' lore, from aphrodisiacs ("Others say pepper is good") to proper grooming ("Let your toga fit well, never a spot on its white"). Translator Humphries, who has also translated Ovid's Metamorphoses (TIME...
...that Britain had to withdraw from Suez without getting the canal or bringing down Nasser, Selwyn Lloyd had two options: to confess defeat or to brazen it through. He chose to claim a victory...
Stalin's policy of liquidating the effective Home Army, which reached its brazen peak in 1944 when Marshal Rokossovsky's army stood idly in the outskirts of Warsaw while the Nazis systematically bombed, shelled and dynamited the city, killing 250,000 people, was the logical outcome of the "Russian problem.'' What Stalin did not obtain by force, he won politically at the conference tables at Yalta and Potsdam. The Western Allies agreed that Poland should fall within the Soviet sphere...
...Nasser. With the considerable assistance of our own State Department's extra-sized umbrella and his brazen Kremlinfamy, he's ignited in the Middle East the spark of World...