Word: dauntlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your head"). She believes that it helps her think more clearly to take at least five baths a day; she shampoos her hair oftener than Mary Martin has to in South Pacific; she likes to wrap her feet in wet cloths. Her insatiable curiosity is equaled only by her dauntless enthusiasm. She strides earnestly through each new city, inspecting everything from museums to maternity wards. When she got to Africa for the filming of The African Queen, she caroled: "What divine natives! What divine morning glories" and began searching for a bamboo forest, because she wanted to know what...
...time, LeTourneau spent $100,000 a month merely servicing machinery that had broken down. But at length he perfected his new devices, and dug his way into the black again in 1949. Bankers who had complained of LeTourneau's "downright stubbornness" began referring again to his "dauntless spirit...
Richard Tiger Kazmaler, dauntless Princeton tailback, has done it again, or at least his press agents have. Added to an impressive list of honors heaped upon the widely publicized Princetonlan is the title of Male Athlete of the Year," conferred annually by an Associated Press pull. Second and third in the balloting were--er--male athletes named Ben Hogan and Stan Musial...
...Dauntless Hero. Kefauver-for-President talk first began last spring after Kefauver led his Senate Crime Investigating Committee around the country. When the committee hearings went on TV, millions of viewers saw the chairman as a dauntless hero fighting the bad men. He wrote a bestselling book, Crime in America, reporting on the committee's work. Suddenly in demand as a lecturer, he stumped across the land, at first discussing crime, then taking up international relations. While he always smilingly shushed talk about the presidency, there was little doubt that his steady eyes were beamed at the White House...
...skeleton staff of Crimeds saw their dauntless friends depart, and hastily prepared the biography of Dr. Hu appearing on page four...