Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...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...
Only the boldest and bravest of Westerners will tread upon the moving sidewalks or the brimming monorail, which always looks as if it is carrying troops to the front. One group of elderly ladies piled up on the sidewalk like dominoes; 42 of them were injured, and the walk was shut down for days. Electric shuttle cars, which generally have been immobilized by the huge crowds of pedestrians, may soon be taken out of service...
...bottom of a nameless and uncharted pit, she was too gone to be afraid of the snakes and scorpions who came to view her Gulliverian hugeness, too exhausted to make it to the next ridge and the twilight blue beyond it. Little girls with broken hearts would make the bravest soldiers. Beyond the loss of hope there is nothing very fearful...