Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hundred years ago next month, a small force of intrepid Englishmen stormed into the sprawling Red Fort of Old Delhi and thereby broke the back of what the British still call the Indian Mutiny. (Some Indians now call it the "First War of Independence.") Last week, as the Republic of India celebrated its tenth Independence Day, Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru spoke to his people from the Red Fort's symbolic ramparts. Said he: "We have completed one journey of freedom. The second is just to begin. We have to understand that we may stumble and fall. When a people...
...explore the fantastic world of outer space with characters of a type unknown today-inhuman humans subject to telepathy, telekinesis, multiple personality, and an infinite capacity for shifting to and fro in spacetime. As characters, they are deader than the planets they visit; as explorers, they are about as intrepid as a pack of apartment-house janitors. Samples...
...turnpike has four lanes with a posted speed limit of sixty miles an hour. It should shorten the trip to New York by at least a half an hour or even more for the intrepid college motorist. The chief advantage of the road for the New York traveler is that it cuts out the bleak stretch comprising Routes 9 and 20 to the Wilbur Cross Parkway...
David Niven, an old hand at delivering the cultivated sneer, plays the intrepid and imperturbable voyager in a way which leaves nothing to be desired. A famous Mexican comedian named Cantinflas is consistently funny throughout as the valet, and shines particulary in a humorous interpretation of a bullfight. Shirley MacLaine plays the Indian princess, and the late Robert Newton makes his last screen appearance as a detective who pursues the travelers under the impression that he is chasing a pair of bank robbers. Todd has also somehow managed to get 44 stage and screen stars to play bit parts. They...
...hoopla that accompanied Stanley's mission to Africa, it was a secret affair compared to the electronic safari that serpentined through French Equatorial Africa last week under the intrepid leadership of TV's Arthur Godfrey. Not only did Godfrey overcome serious communications hazards to beam regular bureeek reports back home for his millions of listeners but, where Stanley merely found Livingstone, Godfrey & Friends achieved the heretofore unheard-of feat of introducing underarm deodorant to the people of the Dark Continent. For a static-free report of the mission, see TV-RADIO, White Hunter...