Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis, thus arousing anxious critics to denounce him for what they called "brinkmanship." Today, these half-forgotten pinpoints of land rank with the Rock of Gibraltar and the Maginot Line as among the world's most notable military anachronisms. Yet they are still guarded by an intrepid army of some 100,000 Chinese Nationalists, who are sporadically shelled every other day from the Communist mainland. TIME Correspondent Roy Rowan visited Quemoy and filed the following report...
...with names - mindless Azagoth, Soggoth, Ib, Nyarlathotep and, above all, the great dread Cthulu who, in his sole appear ance, seems to be a "gelatinous green immensity" that slobbers. To recall these alien creatures from their hideous hiding places (the arctic wastes, unfathomable submarine chasms, New Eng land), the intrepid have but to practice rituals recorded in dusty, blasphemous old tomes like the Necronomicon of the mad Arab Abdul Alhazred and Von Junzt's Unaussprechlichen Kulten...
...finest compliment one can pay the off-Broadway Roundabout Theater revival is that it brings out all the Joycean echoes in Ibsen. When it falters, it is simply that few actors are intrepid enough to scale the sheer rock face of Ibsen's perdurable realities. ∙T.E.K...
Williams offensive players were more intrepid, and in daring the goal face, were more accurate. Halfway through the second quarter, Bob Pinkard caught an upper corner of the goal on a feed from Gallagher, and four minutes later notched an assist, converted by Steve Dietrick. The Purple and Black led at the half...
Kelman has since continued to promulgate his peculiar brand of conservative socialism. His second book, Behind the Berlin Wall, is an account of a two-month stay during 1971 in East Germany. Constant fear haunts our intrepid hero as he risks millenial jail terms to uncover the truth about Communism. He cleverly outwits a couple of commissars who accompany him, and returns to report that things are not good in East Germany: everything breaks all the time, there are not enough refrigerators, telephones or good razor blades--and besides, the people are not free...