Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...theories, integrity and self-respect so long as he is paid off with his life. Knowledge is an appetite for him and not an unstained banner of loyalty to scientific inquiry or a mandate to kill the belief in God. He is the typical Brechtian hero-heel, a seemingly intrepid liberator of mankind who is cringingly adept at saving his own skin, a born false Messiah. Brecht rather ingenuously indicts Galileo for not ushering in a sempiternal age of reason and for recanting before the agents of the Inquisition. Actually, Western man adopted an unquestioning faith in science that more...
With Holden was an intrepid crew filming a documentary that will be seen on CBS next season. The one-hour production will mark Narrator Holden's TV debut. Ten years ago he left Hollywood and became a co-owner of the Mount Kenya Safari Club. He has since become an avid conservationist, and decided only recently that he would go on TV because he wanted to tell the story of Kenya's ecology...
...fishing boat's pulpit stood the intrepid harpooner, dart-tipped pole in hand. Down flashed the steel into a huge sperm whale. After that came a battle off Cape Finisterre that lasted several hours, reported Madrid's daily ABC, and when all the thrashing and splashing were over, Spain's Francisco Franco, 75, had landed himself a 48,000-lb. trophy. Franco's favorite finny prey is salmon, but this was far from his first whale. Over the years he has snagged more than 20 of the leviathans, and he has the pictures to prove...
...from Singapore, police moved in and took up positions among the trees. Thus ensconced, they witnessed a strange rite. On an open-air stage, blue-clad men and women in their 20s sang, recited the sayings of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, and performed acrobatic dance versions of his most intrepid deeds before a rapt audience of other youths. The police waited until the performance had ended, then moved in quickly and arrested 123 performers and members of the audience. The pineapple estate was a clandestine Communist Party school where young students, all of them Singapore or Malaysian Chinese, lived, studied...
...hull and masts entirely constructed of aluminum; her rigging is stainless steel. It takes 27 winches to handle her 2,900 sq. ft. of sail-including two huge Graydon Smith "coffee grinders" that are improved versions of those used on last year's America's Cup winner, Intrepid, and cost $20,000 apiece. Ondine has two cockpits (to keep other crewmen from interfering with the helmsman), and just about every navigational device short of radar: VOR, Loran, ADF, four wind indicators. Sailing Ondine takes a total crew of 20, including a professional captain, a ship's doctor...