Word: boldest
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Levi Strauss owes part of its growth to a willingness to gamble that Haas insists has been possible only because the company is privately held. Possibly the boldest move occurred in 1964, when the company became one of the first to manufacture permanent-press clothes, which it now sells in 60 countries. The company intends to keep its ownership concentrated. Whenever an employee leaves, he is required to sell his stock back to the company...
...beauty 13 years his junior. "My hun dred and thirteenth love," he called her - a very modest estimate. Ironically, Pushkin's wife became a favorite at the Czar's court, and her flagrant flirtations threw him into fits of jealousy. Finally he challenged the boldest of her courtiers, the French-born Baron Georges D'Anthes, to a duel. Pushkin was shot in the stomach and died two days later...
...White House ceremony, President Johnson hailed the Apollo 8 astronauts as "history's boldest explorers" and awarded NASA's Distinguished Service Medal to each man. Then the astronauts gave the President an award. "Jim Lovell has a picture of the ranch I think you would like to have," said Borman. Lovell stepped forward with a color picture of the barren lunar landscape below a blue and white earth...
...originators in the early 1950s, pay TV was to bring to every living room Broadway musicals, operas from the Met, heavyweight-title fights-all for $1 or so a show. There would be ballet, first-run and art movies never seen on TV, classical drama and the boldest of the off-Broadway experiments-the sort of minority programming that network executives claim is uneconomical. But that vision did not reckon with the relentless opposition of movie exhibitors and the broadcasting lobbies in Washington. Over the years the TV industry kept insisting, as the National Association of Broadcasters' chief counsel...
...majority on key legislation. Convinced that Franco's pledge of "democratic evolution" should come sooner rather than later, they have managed to get an airing for their views by the novel tactic of putting on a kind of legislative road show all over Spain. Last week, in their boldest challenge to authority yet, a dozen of them gathered in Valladolid and vowed to keep right on meeting in defiance of a ban recently imposed by Cortes President Antonio Iturmendi Bañales...