Word: fearlessness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...often gloomily distant. His first wife Ruth once remarked that "it's very difficult to be his wife, but it's wonderful to be on the sidelines watching him. He doesn't ^ like anything that's conventional, and he must do everything to perfection." Fearless to the point of folly on the battlefield, he initiated the tradition of Israeli officers personally leading their troops into battle. His extraordinary courage and enormous stature inevitably made him a lightning rod for Israel's triumphs and tragedies. No Israeli political figure soared to such heights of public esteem...
...Munro left London again to become the Morning Post's correspondent in the Balkans, covering the bloody rivalry between Turks and Bulgars. He moved on to St. Petersburg, witnessing the march on the Winter Palace in 1905 and savage reprisal by Tsar Nicholas' Cossacks. Munro was a fearless reporter, but in letters to Ethel he seemed proudest not of risks taken or beats scored, but of having once snatched a kitten to safety just as it was about to be crushed under the muddy feet of advancing revolutionaries...
...Monopoly set turns professorial Marxists into board-game landowners, buying play-money hotels with an almost erotic glee. But when a predictable argument about whether Napoleon was a reactionary or a progressive begins in a gray schoolroom, Agee slips a pulp detective novel behind his textbook. The adventures of fearless...
Equally impressive with their leather as they were with their lumber, the squad committed only two errors and turned in some exceptional fielding plays. Shortstop Bernstein caught an MIT baserunner in a superbly executed rundown. Fearless catcher Raney kept the Engineer-baserunners honest with frequent and accurate throws to first, and in left, Holpuch--the starting center on the women's hoop squad--displayed an extraordinary throwing...
Horne had much to be pleased about, as the spunky point guard continually brought Harvard up from behind with a series of clutch free throws, heads-up defense, and fearless penetration through the lane...