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A whole poetry of the ordinary came out of such images, from Walker Evans' frontal portraits of sharecroppers' beds to Jasper Johns' deadpan brace of ale cans.
From the moment it became clear that John F. Kennedy Jr. and his two passengers had been lost at sea, Keeping Tabs--who was passingly acquainted with Kennedy--began to brace herself for the inevitable tabloid onslaught.
Eliot, edited by Christopher Ricks (Harcourt Brace).
Finally, why do we always and only "brace" for hurricanes?
--Night and Day, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1948.