Word: bravely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...usual at this time of year, the key to much of 1960's economic health lies hidden in a vital question: How big a year will it be for autos? Automen traditionally make a brave try at guessing the answer on the basis of the latest sales, which rose 10.7% in January over last year. But this year the significance of the figures has been clouded by the carryover effects of the steel strike and the first full model year for the compacts. Last week Detroit cut back auto production, but that only thickened the clouds; automen blamed much...
...sport's headlong flight toward new records, new attendance figures and brave new ideas, the businessmen who pay the salaries and provide the arenas have tailed sluggishly behind. But last week three major sports could report progress toward bigger and better things. ¶ The fledgling American Football League is now solidly stocked with college stars of the past season, expects to be in full flight by this fall in New York, Los Angeles, Oakland, Denver, Houston, Buffalo, Boston and Dallas. The money is pledged, and stadiums are available. Relations are raw between the American and the established National Football...
Running Bear (Johnny Preston; Mercury). There was an Indian brave named Running Bear who loved an Indian maid named Little White Dove but was separated from her by a raging river. He plunged in, and she plunged in, and "The raging river pulled them down/ Now they'll always be together/ In that happy huntin' ground." The arrangement lags and lurches, but it has carried Singer Preston into his own happy hunting ground on the pop charts...
...successfully. And though increasing numbers of junior officers outspokenly echoed the settlers' complaints, Old Gaullist Massu had long made it clear that, while he might grumble, he would never revolt against De Gaulle. In Paris late last week, reflecting on the circumstances of the Kempski interview, Massu-a brave soldier, but not a brilliant man-concluded that he had fallen into a trap somehow baited for him by ultra leaders...