Word: fearless
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...Secret Service," whispered Berthier, "has on its hands a certain quantity of uranium. But Russian agents are after the stuff. We are now trying to get it to America. The mission is highly dangerous. What we need are fearless, young, patriotic men, willing to work for France." Young (29) Baron Scipion du Roure reflected for an instant on the pallidity of the languid life he had been leading. "Je suis votre homme," said he solemnly...
...paints a black picture for the future of that country. Israel's position wasn't improved when they had to open their doors to every Jew in Europe that Hitler didn't murder. But never forget that the kids who witnessed these horrors are now a fearless fighting group of men and women . . . They haven't "got their backs to the wall"-there are no walls...
...should be. Yeats wanted his plays performed before a small group for good reason. They are delicate weldings of poetry, music, and dance--all in a mystical world existing only in the minds of romantic men. The plays extol the hero Cuchalain and with him all brave deeds and fearless men. They reject the objective intellect--the only intelligence that exists for them is that of cunning or wise counsel in the art of war. The mind alone, the scholar, the academician, even the satirist is not mocked or belittled--he just does not exist. The play On Baile...
Joining him on the panel was Frederic Hoffman. Visiting professor of English Hoffman attacked a aviate peculiar to the twenties alone as the period's greatest fault, but said that the resulting "fearless investigation" had a purgative influence on American thought...
...conscientious insurgent is never easy. He must have strength and fire to attract followers; he must be tough and crafty and fearless to make headway against convention. At the turn of the century, old "Fighting Bob" La Follette of Wisconsin was such a man. Millions listened to his rebel yell and to his attacks on the railroad and lumber interests as he fought his way into the governor's mansion in Wisconsin. But the fierce old reformer sensed that his progressive movement would not be fulfilled in his own time, so he bequeathed his fame and following...