Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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More than 150 intrepid Summer School types have sought refuge from the heat on the placid waters of the Charles River. These students have been participants in the sailing program conducted this summer by the Harvard Yacht Club...
...York Times. The very words have a lilt, not unlike clanging ashcans tossed from a refuse truck. What a treasure chest: James Reston, intrepid reporter and pulse counter to the Nation; Craig Claiborne, gourmet par excellence; Orville Prescott on books, Bosley Crowther on movies, Ross Parmenter on music; Seymour Topping reporting from Moscow, Drew Middleton from London, Roy Silver from Rockville Center, David Halberstam from wherever there was trouble, and Farnsworth Fowle, ace of the city-side crew...
...artificial kidney. They are evicting your grandmother from her iron lung"). All degradations are cherished: a coroner named Autopsy Ahmed makes a fortune peddling an Egyptian worm that "gets into your kidneys and grows to an enormous size. Ultimately the kidney is just a thin shell around the worm. Intrepid gourmets esteem the flesh of the worm above all other delicacies. It is said to be unspeakably toothsome." Most sex is homosexual and all of it is sterile: one partner murders the other in the midst of an embrace, so he can enjoy the death spasms...
Five Weeks in a Balloon. "Sirrr," proclaims an intrepid Scotsman, "Ah prro-pose to fly in a balloon fourrr thousand mayles overrr unexplorred jungle...
Raids & Whoops. The Olive and Boyle quarter began to spruce up; even the antique-and-junk dealers caught the spirit, began upgrading their wares and window displays. St. Louis was in the process of demolishing 465 acres of downtown property for redevelopment, and the intrepid Gaslighters staged foraging raids behind wrecking crews, picking up church pews, chandeliers and marble bathtubs. With their truckloads of artifacts, they transformed the old buildings into a gingerbread plaisance calculated to bring a tear of delight to the eye of St. Louisans yearning for the good old days, a whoop of joy to younger citizens...