Word: fearlessly
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...June 1, they will increase stand-by fares to $299. But fearless Freddie, unwilling to toy with success, will continue to offer round trips...
...course, it does have a fine, swaggering, macho sound. It suggests fearless reporters, incorruptible, unseducible, bravely doing battle with the powerful or gamely wrestling with octopus-armed bureaucrats. And for many reporters, the Nixon attitude signaled the welcome end of a too-cozy courtship of the press in the Kennedy-Johnson era, when, for example, Ben Bradlee -Nixon's ferocious adversary all through Watergate-had been willing to quash a story because his friend Jack Kennedy urged him to. But the adversary phrase has a lot to do with certain self-satisfied post-Watergate attitudes in the press, including...
...tavern near Boston. The time is 1828. The hero is an O'Neill staple, the man of illusions-cum-sorrows, bottle-fed. With the aid of drink, Con Melody (Jason Robards) cultivates a highly colored remembrance of things past-the Gaelic gallant seducing the lovelies of Europe, the fearless cavalry major decorated on a Spanish field of honor by the great Wellington himself. In sorry reality, he is an impoverished tavern keeper too proud to tend bar as his father did in Ireland. Indeed, pride hagrides Con Melody, like the Greek Furies, except that he is driven more toward...
...five-year-old boy (Teri Garr) and his single mother (Melinda Dillon) are drifting off to sleep to the sound of crickets. Then strange things start to happen: the child's electric toys begin to stir, household appliances go haywire, and objects start moving about in the air. The fearless boy is amused and seems to notice a mysterious presence in the room. The commotion ceases, and the child's sluggish mother awakens only in time to run after her little boy who has gone trampsing across the fields after the mysterious night visitor yelling, "Wait for me, wait...
Most of the crew members from the ships took to lifeboats, but some leaped into the water; all but two were rescued. One of them was plucked out of the shark-infested sea by Harold Mockford, a fearless helicopter pilot who also flew through flame and smoke to save 13 men who had been trapped aboard the Venoil. The rest of the survivors were rescued by two passing British merchant ships...