Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Does Not Soil the Breakfast Cloth." The Faculty of the College had seen to it that several earlier newspapers went out of existence after they had dared to print critical articles, and even a paper co-founded by James Russell Lowell had died from lack of readers. The bravest of the College papers. The Collegian, had boasted on its masthead "Dulce est Periculum"--"Danger is Sweet"--and had run the risk of offending faulty sentiment. It too was closed down. The prospects of success for a new paper seemed bleak...
...Burton had found a century earlier, the Somalis are among the bravest, vainest, crudest and also friendliest races in Africa. They possess enormous self-respect. Somalis love to fight, set great store in a killing well done, and do not mind dying. Hanley recalls coming upon a Somali who had just finished butchering a fellow tribesman. He expressed anxiety only when he realized that Hanley was not going to shoot him on the spot. "You're not going to start all that court business, are you?" asked the murderer as he was led away...
...hose; they take a military pride in their battle scars; and in the heat of a fire fight they would die to save a victim from the flames - and in fact they often do. In Smith's well-supported opinion, they are indeed "New York's Bravest...
...TIME'S recent story on the I.R.A. is the best all-round account of the history of the current resistance in Northern Ireland. I want to commend you for not slandering the bravest men in Northern Ireland as "terrorists" or "murderers...
...decries the situation in which almost all other public efforts on the prisoners' behalf have been the work of "women and children." The disillusion of the prisoners' wives "is coming to a boiling point," she says. "The pats on the head are not enough any more. Calling us the bravest women in the world won't work...