Word: intrepid
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...intrepid pilot of the silk scarf and goggles school, the kind of man who could (and did) attempt to set a new speed record between Paris and Saigon, who could crash in the Sahara and survive, rescued by Bedouins. He was also the acclaimed author of such international best sellers as the novel Night Flight (1931) and the children's tale The Little Prince (1943). As if these achievements did not generate sufficient glamour, Antoine de Saint- Exupery also managed a death that was both heroic and mysterious. At 44, he had won permission to fly photoreconnaissance missions over...
...dawn of the papacy, Kelly repeatedly confesses, is too shadowy for even the most intrepid scholar. Of St. Evaristus (c.100-c.109), for example, he says, "Nothing is in fact reliably known about him." St. Felix I (269-74) "is one of the obscurest Popes, even his dates being conjectural." Then there was Pope Joan, whose entire existence is conjectural. Kelly dutifully traces the oftretold legend of a disguised woman Pope (who was found out when she gave birth while trying to mount a horse) to a 13th century work called the Universal Chronicle of Metz. The only Pope who never existed...
...series of Flashman adventures and one of the saltiest, immerses him in the Taiping Rebellion, a nominally Christian uprising that lasted 14 years and resulted in some 20 million deaths. Based on a reputation for valor, acquired by stumbling into dangerous places at well-publicized times, the intrepid Flashman becomes Britain's semiofficial envoy to the revolutionaries. His escapades, both military and carnal, bring verve and wit to a carefully footnoted tale. Young Tom Brown was certainly more the gentleman, but he could not possibly have grown up to be so much...
...Somerset Maugham's story The Happy Man was typical. The author had profited handsomely from his tale, complained the original, but where was the fee for the man who had lived it? A Swazi warrior named M'hlopekazi was more succinct. He was the inspiration for Umslopogaas, the intrepid tribesman of King Solomon's Mines. The hunting knife that H. Rider Haggard had presented was all very well. But, M'hlopekazi protested vainly, there was something an African guide would find far more valuable in the veld: royalties...
...refuse. "We hear you're interested in good food," ran the letter from executives of Keydril, the Houston-based company that contracts, staffs and operates ten exploration drilling rigs for oil companies around the world. "Come and have lunch with us. We think you'll be surprised." To an intrepid eater who had tried to get aboard a rig for years, the invitation was irresistible, because food on offshore rigs is legendary for both quantity and quality. Meals have long been considered the prime entertainment for men who are marooned for weeks at a time away from land and family...