Word: daredeviling
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...leader was a wellborn, well-to-do daredevil of 29, named Fidel Castro. As chief of a 1953 uprising in eastern Santiago de Cuba, the island's No. 2 city, Lawyer Castro had been jailed, amnestied, exiled. In Mexico this year he pulled together a ragtag force, dubbed it the July 26 Movement (for the date of the Santiago attack), drilled it at a ranch near Mexico City. Last month Castro, crying "Liberty or death in 1956," called on Strongman Batista to step down and form a national unity government or face revolution. In Havana Castro's followers...
Dulles: "Unquestionably the greatest unguided missile in the history of American diplomacy" (Clement); "Daredevil John Foster Dulles−world-famous escape artist with his breathtaking, death-defying brink-of-war act" (Kerr...
Such rides along the brink of death are much more than a demonstration of daredevil courage; the data they produce are urgently needed in an age when man is opening up dreamlike new frontiers of space and speed...
...Marshal Sir Basil Embry, 51, will take over, under Juin, the Allied Air Forces of Central Europe. Sir Basil, a jovial, able daredevil, was shot down in France in World War II, escaped by knocking out three German guards, walked and cycled across France in workman's clothes, watched Hitler enter Paris, in all was captured three times, escaped three times. Once, posing as an Irish patriot, he was challenged to speak Gaelic, fooled the Germans by a flood of Urdu, which he had learned in India. Back in combat, Embry took on a series of missions, once dive...
...common sense." Stephen Jerome Hannagan had both. At 14, he broke in as a $1-a-week part-time cub on his home-town Lafayette (Ind.) Morning Journal. He was campus correspondent for the Indianapolis Star during two years at Purdue, became pressagent for the Indianapolis Speedway, and the daredevil exploits of its racing drivers. Impressed by Hannagan's zip and Irish charm, Publisher Roy W. Howard took him to New York to work for the United Press, later set him writing N.E.A.'s Broadway column. Flamboyant Steve quit after four years to go back to work...