Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...department allied with the municipal police fought a pitched battle with the Virginia boys and the state troopers. Routed at the end, the firefighters lost their clothing and trucks to a rioting band of fraternity men after responding to a false signal. Hook and ladder in nearby Crozet, more intrepid than the Charlottesville smoke eaters, can still be summoned in an emergency...
...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation, which would allocate funds enabling Senior ROTC men to obain solo hours at private flying schools. Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...
...those more intrepid students who desire flight training, there is hope in pending legislation which would allocate funds enabling senior R.O.T.C. men to obtain solo hours at private flying schools, Graduates of the newly inaugurated curriculum who want to get from desk to control panel will have a priority second only to West Pointers in the national training program for flying officers...
...intrepid clipper skipper braving a typhoon singlehanded; the terror of the Luftwaffe and the toast of the R.A.F.; a coldly insolent, julep-sucking riverboat gambler; the surgeon who takes over when all seems lost and is soon able to say, "Don't cry, little girl, your brother will play the violin again." And in every one of these heroic visions the same lovely blonde (Virginia Mayo) is on hand to worship...
...After five weeks of exploring the wastes of Antarctica,* Rear Admiral Richard Evelyn Byrd was back in Washington. Though most Americans were surprised to see him home so soon, a small crowd of crew relatives, reporters and top Navy brass stood in a drizzle to watch the intrepid Admiral debark from the polar flagship, U.S.S. Mount Olympus...