Word: dauntlesses
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...could doubt the wisdom of the choice. The dentist from Des Moines, Wash., may have been in failing health, but it was clear from the moment he set foot in the University of Utah Medical Center that Barney Clark was a dauntless spirit. "A rugged old Rocky Mountain sagebrush. Tough. Eager for life." That was how Dr. Chase Peterson, a university vice president, described the man who was to make medical history. Those qualities, together with his obviously urgent need, convinced the university selection committee that Clark should be the world's first human to receive a permanent artificial...
...Israel's war of independence, he broke out of the hospital a week after being shot in the neck, in order to rejoin his platoon; during the 1967 war he commanded the audacious Golani Brigade, which seized seemingly unassailable Syrian positions. Since then, he has proved similarly dauntless in inquiries into episodes of possible army misconduct. As a former aide to Chief of Staff Rafael Eitan, Efrat also hesitated before joining the commission...
...clearly thrown a scare into the drug underworld. Last week President Reagan vividly reaffirmed White House support for the campaign with a cheerleading visit to South Florida. He reviewed an impressive array of confiscated drugs, weapons and cash and paid tribute to the crew of the Coast Guard cutter Dauntless, which received a presidential citation for a two-year record of 126 arrests and the capture of 459,000 Ibs. of marijuana and 20 smuggling vessels. Later that day the President declared the effort "a clear and unqualified success," adding: "Our goal is to wreck the power...
...rejected the idea out of hand and without checking with Nixon. Golda's leaving while a major battle was going on would be a sign of such panic that it might bring in all the Arab states still on the sidelines. It would leave Israel leaderless when Golda's dauntless courage was most needed. (I learned after the war that at this very moment some senior Israeli ministers were recommending a withdrawal deep into the Sinai...
...bridge of Dauntless, Captain Murtagh orders the 41st marijuana leaf painted on the mast. "There is at least one thing we prove," he says, sipping from his ever present cup of black coffee. "They don't all get through...