Word: brazenness
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...mind particularly the recent Toronto speech by External Affairs Minister Pearson (TIME, April 23) in which Pearson was critical of U.S. leadership. Said Browne: "It was rather surprising that [Pearson] should speak as he recently did in Toronto . . . We are copying the bad manners of the Russians [in] their brazen . . . and even insulting tactics...
...TIME, March 5). The President, he told the Senators, had telephoned him last month to warn that the White House "had the goods on a great many" Congressmen who had taken fees for influencing RFC loans. This sounded like either the makings of a first-rate scandal or a brazen attempt to head off the congressional investigation, and Tobey hounded the White House for proof. Three weeks later, he said, the President called back to admit he had no such proof...
...Star Finale. That was about all the committee needed to confirm its worst suspicions of the extent and brazen confidence of the Chicago syndicate. Next week, in the wind-up hearings, Estes Kefauver will bring his roadshow to New York, where an all-star cast, including Frank Costello, Joe Adonis and Meyer Lansky, unhappily awaits him. Then the committee will sit down to write its final report...
...next night the Reds staged a furious counterattack, heralded by bugling, whistling, and the brazen clang of cymbals which dismally reminded the G.I.s of the surprise Chinese attack in early November. The South Koreans lost all of their ground north of Tokchon, and the town as well. Said a U.S. officer: "We can only assume that the R.O.K. II Corps [6th, 7th and 8th Divisions] disintegrated." The 1st Cavalry Division had to be rushed up to prevent a breakthrough. One company of the 25th Division was overrun ("There's damned little of that company left," the assistant division commander...
...further charged that the Army and the United States Brewers Foundation were engaged in a "brazen" plot to get intoxicants to soldiers, and demanded that everybody in authority in the U.S. keep a clear head by swearing off for the duration. She also suggested that Congress investigate the drinking habits of Alaskan Eskimos, on the ground that the corrosive effect of alcohol in the North fairly invited a Russian invasion...