Word: fearless
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...Lisa's a really good ski racer," Harty said. "Soyoun took up the sport having very little race experience. He became pretty fearless. We also had good progress with a lot of our freshman skiers. By the end of the year, they were skiing pretty well...
Robinson has followed a remarkable path to fame. Rising from the youngest professor of law ever appointed to Trinity College, to the first woman Irish president and finally to U.N. high commissioner, Robinson has become one of the most powerful and fearless voices for human rights in the world...
...someone very special indeed. As a German boy of eight, he and his mother and siblings made a perilous escape west out of occupied Czechoslovakia to avoid being trapped under the coming Russian terror. And in his first job with TIME, in 1965, he was one of our most fearless war correspondents in Vietnam. He repeated that role in the vicious war in Lebanon in 1975. He then held postings around the world and became the managing editor of TIME's international editions, building a fledgling into what is today a thriving global presence for this magazine. He was demanding...
...force of his example still merit the extreme accolade? For Jawaharlal Nehru, the defining image of Gandhi was "as I saw him marching, staff in hand, to Dandi on the Salt March in 1930. Here was the pilgrim on his quest of Truth, quiet, peaceful, determined and fearless, who would continue that quest and pilgrimage, regardless of consequences." Nehru's daughter Indira Gandhi later said, "More than his words, his life was his message." These days, that message is better heeded outside India. Albert Einstein was one of many to praise Gandhi's achievement; Martin Luther King Jr., the Dalai...
Another priority is a film of Battlefield Earth, the sci-fi novel by Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard. Travolta is a strong adherent of the controversial "belief system." His friends and relatives say it empowers him with almost fearless self-confidence. He believes it does even more. "I once got so feverish we had to stop production on Grease," remembers director Randal Kleiser. "John decided to cure me using Scientology, and put his finger over my body for an hour. The next day I made a full recovery. Of course, it could have also been that flu shot from...