Word: hardihood
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Author Guthne's mountain men-buffalo hunters, trappers and guides-are seen, smelt and heard with a consistency and solidity of understanding that makes most other writing about them seem perfunctory or fake. All the romantic qualities that a boy could find in these figures -their lonely hardihood, keenness and courage-are combined with a realist's grasp of them as rough and wayward fugitives from society. The idiom of their thought and speech has never been so richly used in fiction...
Evalyn refused to be subdued. She had chosen a reckless way of life, and she pursued it with persistent hardihood. She was constantly moved to outbursts of wild generosity. When the straggling Bonus Army of World War I veterans marched on Washington in 1932, she fed them, bought them cigarets, provided a circus tent to house them...
...golden Indian summer when Ed arrived. Rittenhouse Square, hemmed in by the old brownstone houses of an old aristocracy, was patterned with pale sunshine. The city was heavy with factory mists and factory stinks. But as much as anything else, smog and smells were evidences of Republican hardihood. On top of City Hall-above the chambers where a bland, bluff Republican machine had reigned with scarcely an interruption for 58 years-Father William Penn lifted a smog-smudged hand in benediction over the city whose wealth and power were created by high tariffs and Republican enterprise...
...spawning. As the cost of government went up with the vast proliferation of games and benefactions, men sought to escape their duties as taxpayers by deliberately debasing their social standings. The role of the State increased after the time of Augustus, and the individual tended to lose his moral hardihood as his mind was more & more made up for him by his political masters...
...Britons and Americans who fear the destruction of Rome's Christian shrines and cultural monuments, an R.A.F. spokesman said: " We are not the least interested in attacking . . . monuments, least of all religious edifices. . . . But who would have the hardihood to tell mothers of Britain and America: 'Your sons must die in greater numbers rather than risk disturbing a monument that happens to be next door to a factory making guns or parts for submarines...