Word: dauntlessness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dedicated Man. John Bricker's mood is one of dauntless dedication. He is willing to search for a compromise, if he can find one that suits his conscience. But he complains that the Administration does not really know its own mind. "It's my Administration," he says. "It's a Republican Administration. I want to get along with them. But they don't seem to want to understand the issue. They haven't advanced one cogent argument against the principles of the resolution...
Writing funny captions for the photographs must have been a tedious procedure, because very few of them are clever. A typical picture is one of a ragged little dog labeled Trixie, first and fiercest bulldog, supposedly demonstrating the dauntless spirit of the dogged Blue eleven. But the cut lines do the best with meager material, in a mock, curt, newspaper style...
...same week the Post Office Department, noting "substantial" disagreement as to the battery-rejuvenation merits of AD-X2, withdrew a fraud order against it. Crowed Jess M. Ritchie, dauntless co-inventor and promoter of AD-X2: "We're ready to pour it into every battery in the country...
...Honest Men Know." For dauntless Alcide de Gasperi, the only choice is to fight it out on both fronts. To a huge crowd at Rome's Basilica of Massenzio last week, De Gasperi's strong-willed Interior Minister, Mario Scelba, fired the opening barrage. "If you want Communist dictatorship," said he, "vote Communist or [Nenni] Socialist. If you want adventurers to run the government and repeat all the errors of the past, then vote for the Monarchists and MSI [Neo-Fascists]. But honest men know that democracy, with all its deficiencies, is always better than totalitarianism of either...
Head-Hunters & Hospitals. Everywhere he went, said Dr. Van Dusen, the Christian church was "the one resourceful, untiring, dauntless ministrant to human need-human need of all kinds." The old-fashioned picture of the missionary as a "well-intentioned but rather commonplace preacher, a Bible in one hand and an umbrella in the other, standing under a palm tree exhorting half-naked savages to discard their heathen ways" is as out of date as the daguerreotype. The typical Christian mission today is a center of three or four buildings-a hospital, a school, a church-from which a team...