Word: intrepid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...highly emotional man, with a reputation for vengefulness. Teng is respected rather than loved by the Chinese, and appears to have cronies and allies rather than friends. For all that, he is China's great survivor; at 74 he has embarked with unflagging energy on the most intrepid political adventure of his life...
...Saturday morning, the first round of the two-day event, the intrepid duo teed it up with almost nary a practice swing in seven weeks. Fitzgibbons, however, had devised a dubious strategy to compensate for the creaky swings of the Harvard twosome...
...come from within but from behind, and they rarely seem anything other than what they are: acrylic images superimposed on something more real. Only occasionally does the action flower into independent life: when Frodo and a friend try to row the same boat in different directions; when the intrepid hobbits meet up with Gollum, a creature reduced by his former possession of the evil ring into broad, burlesque servility...
Another incident took place in 1960, shortly after John F. Kennedy's election to the presidency, while he was in Boston giving a press conference. Two intrepid WHRB reporters, at the conclusion of Kennedy's remarks, had the foresight to leap into the back of his cab, ignoring the protests of Secret Service men. The reporters fortunately had one of the early portable tape recorders with them. Kennedy was so taken aback by their pluck that he submitted to an interview all the way to the airport...
Good as Lear's book is in documenting the political maneuverings, it nevertheless suffers from certain organizational and stylistic flaws. Although his prose is generally smooth and well-crafted, he occasionally goes into inordinate scientific detail that would discourage all but the most intrepid layman from finishing his book...