Word: intrepid
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...intrepid Yardling was not daunted. He tried the local liquor store, using his California license, acquired in New York. The Pro said no. He tried the local supermarket, using his Columbia i.d., acquired at Phillips Exeter Academy. Broadway bagged him. And he tried local bars, using a fake moustache, acquired at his best friend's 10th birthday party. The Bow and Arrow shot him down...
...real name is Kevin Costner, and this backseat sizzler with Sean Young from the hit political thriller No Way Out has people lining up at movie theaters across the country. With a startlingly different look as the intrepid crime crusader Eliot Ness, Costner is also drawing crowds to The Untouchables. < These bookend summer successes have cinched his status as Hollywood's new romantic leading man. With his tall, rangy good looks and cool American strength, Costner, 32, is an old-fashioned movie hero. Like such stars as Gary Cooper, Clark Gable and Jimmy Stewart, he can fill the screen with...
...ingratiating as he was industrious, North made many friends around the White House, especially among his superiors. William Clark, Allen's successor, took a shine to the intrepid Marine, and his replacement, Robert McFarlane, looked upon Ollie as another son, but one in need of supervision. Only Admiral John Poindexter seemed relatively immune to Ollie's charm, but North still almost always got his way with Poindexter. Among his male colleagues, North could swear like a dirtwater Marine, but when a woman entered the room, he cleaned up his speech. Says one woman at the White House: "With women...
This spring 12 freshmen declared a concentration that no other student before them had. The intrepid freshmen signed up to test drive the Women's Studies program four months after the concentration was voted into existence. The product of eight years of lobbying and planning, the concentration received only one dissent--from Professor of Government Harvey Mansfield--as the Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS) approved its first new concentration in three years...
While everyone said they found the trumpet blaring music of Benny Goodman and other Big Band directors to be interesting, not everyone preferred it to jazz or rock and roll. Although some more intrepid dancers confessed to their partners "Oh, I love this song, this is really cool," more confided with somewhat disappointed expressions, "This is O.K., but I can't get too enthused about...