Word: dauntlesses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Winter is no bargain, either. Its snowstorms, which the dauntless U.S. postal service defies, stall the trains TIME depends on for prompt U.S. delivery; its uncertain weather and icing conditions ground the planes delivering TIME'S pictures to the printer and the film we use for printing our International editions abroad. Once it trapped a correspondent we desperately wanted to get in touch with for a solid month on a tiny Atlantic island...
...swell, and it traces the upward curve of most of its characters' destinies. Falstaff, still the boon companion of the errant, frivoling Prince Hal, swaggers and swills in rich midsummer plenty. In a flare of eloquence and arms, the rebellion against Henry IV, led by the heedless, dauntless Hotspur, progresses to the plains of Shrewsbury, where the day is lost...
Turn of the Wheel. He was not master of his house in BuAer. He got no credit for cutting administrative corners to procure new planes which paid off after Pearl Harbor: the Dauntless, the Avenger, the Hellcat. He became Commander, Air, Pacific (in 1942) and it looked like the fulfillment of his dreams, until it turned into desk duty. When a commander was picked for the great central Pacific offensive in 1943, not Jack Towers but Battleshipman Raymond Ames Spruance...
...stars, drew as much as or more than Five-Star Marshall, whose only bonus was an occasional morsel of overseas pay (at 10%). Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, rated a naval aviator, until V-J day added 10% "sea pay" to his base pay by living aboard the yacht Dauntless in Anacostia's mud, but he spurned the chance to collect 50% more for occasional flying. Most other elderly generals, admirals, colonels and four-stripe captains legally stepped up their take-home pay by sitting in a copilot's seat for an hour a week...
Occasionally, a Thurber Male copes with dreadful reality by fleeing from it. Walter Mitty (The Secret Life of Walter Mitty) is, in his escape, the dauntless Commander Mitty ("Throw on the power lights! Rev her up to 8,500! We're going through!"). He is also the world-famed Dr. Mitty, taking over the crucial operation when other specialists are baffled, and the Defendant Mitty who is afraid of nobody...