Word: cravener
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...previous games the Yardling ground attack has been able to score only six points, but the passing combination of tailback George Hasiotis and end Joe Herlitty has consistently gained yardage. In addition to Hasiotis, the other members of the starting backfield will be fullback Ray Craven, quarterback Cliff Erickson, and wingback Al Steiner...
Fragile Fox (by Norman Brooks) is a competent, routine thriller about World War II. It tells, in the italics of melodrama, of a company-commanded by a craven, drunken, swaggering captain-that is suddenly thrown into the Battle of the Bulge. Loathed by his men, the captain gets by with his ambition-ridden colonel because he is the son of an influential political boss in the colonel's home state. To the rumble of tanks and the rat-tat-tat of gunfire, the gutless captain wobbles, crosses up his men, plots...
Then Philosopher Hu Shih turned to K. C. Wu's own conduct in exile. For a scholar who measures his words, his judgment was scathing: "The battle for freedom and democracy has never been fought and won by craven, selfish politicians who remain silent while they enjoy political power, and then, when out of power and safely out of the country, smear their own country and government, for whose every mistake or misdeed they themselves cannot escape a just measure of moral responsibility...
They go to Mexico to hunt lizards with an eagle, a passion of Thea's that Augie scarcely questions. While they train the eagle, love waxes. But the eagle is a craven; when a lizard bites him, he flaps off. Love wanes as Thea takes to collecting snakes and Augie takes to poker. It dies completely after Augie spends a night with Stella, a beautiful tart...
...suspects to be shot without trial; thousands of Leningrad Party members were sent to Siberia. It was the beginning of a huge purge. From 1935 through 1938 successive trials were held of all prominent Bolsheviks who were not Stalin's sycophants, with Andrei Vishinsky prosecuting. They appeared a craven...