Word: dauntless
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...backward was the local Soviet court that both parents were acquitted. Last week their second son,11-year-old Vanya, peached on them not for grain stealing but for murder. "My brother Mischa didn't just disappear after my parents were acquitted. They killed him!" testified the dauntless Pioneer. Resolved to make an example of the parents, Moscow authorities swooped down on the village of Fadeevka, prepared to put through a typical Soviet propaganda trial...
...lugging Abercorn's collection piece by piece to safety, Belfast police ringed the Castle to guard the Governor's treasures. Out came a $50,000 Van Dyck. Attempting to rescue a huge tapestry two strapping yokels got tangled in their prize and rolled spluttering out the front door. A dauntless parlor maid rescued the baton carried by the Duke of Abercorn's late father at the coronation of King Edward...
...chase away any possible evil spirits with prayers and water. Just to be certain, he had plumbers overhaul the drains. The priests calculated May 20 the most auspicious day for him to move in again. On that day his wife ceremoniously carried a potted plant into the house and dauntless General Hayashi followed...
...obviously Prince Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg, titular head of the Heimwehr, descendant and namesake of the great general who saved Vienna from the Turks in 1683. When there was another little Cabinet shift in Vienna last week, a second candidate for Regent of Austria jumped into the public mind. Dauntless old Prince Alois von Schonburg-Hartenstein, 75, was advanced from Under Secretary to Minister of National Defense...
Deep in the Central American bush, a rebel leader put forth the credo of El Chipote: "Death is but a moment of discomfort, not to be taken seriously." El Chipete, Nicaraguan slang for "tough guy", was the name of a mountain stronghold and the description of its dauntless commander, General Cesar Augusto Sandino. Bearing the names of emperors of old, and living in the region of the Mayan empire of fabulous wealth, he became the arch-enemy of modern imperialism...