Word: intrepid
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...advent of the nineteenth century the intrepid explorer William Clark decided to found the town nestled in the western tip of Kentucky where the Ohio and Tennessee Rivers mingle their waters. Clark named the new settlement Paducah in honor of his friend Chief Paduke, the renowned chief of the Chickesaw Indians. He then embarked on what proved to be a transcontinental trip with another friend by the name of Lewis...
...action takes place during the Thirty Years' War. Mother Courage (Mary Lou Rosato) is an intrepid trader with a sassy tongue and a saucy past. She leeches off the advancing and retreating armies with the goods in her hand-drawn wagon. But her losses bitterly outweigh her profits. While she is haggling over the sale of a belt buckle, her favorite son Eilif (Kevin Conroy) is dragooned to the wars by a sly recruiting officer. Eilif dies. While she tries to shave the price for the release of another son (Jeffrey Hayenga), he is executed. Finally, her mute daughter...
Scientists do not know whether to snicker or be outraged, and most have been hesitant to dignify the theory by formally investigating it. Last month a team of intrepid researchers at Johns Hopkins University ventured into the area. Writing in the Archives of General Psychiatry, Psychologist John Shaffer and Psychiatrist Chester Schmidt reported that despite biorhythm's "wistful appeal," the theory just doesn't work...
...Mississippi House had amassed too much power over the decades to be toppled in two weeks. The members stood up to Finch's intrepid challenge, and the amendment died in committee. Several days prior to the vote Finch had apparently called off his dogs. In a press conference after the vote Finch forewarned ominously, "Just because some of the prophets of gloom and doom say it can't be done...if it's the people's will, it is going to be done." As soon as Finch capitulated, the Jackson press corps began speculating that the entire escapade...
...plus for both men: it showed Desai's countrymen that he had not bowed to the U.S. President, and it also demonstrated to Americans that Carter means business in his efforts to control nuclear proliferation. The fly incident led the Boston Herald American to praise "India's intrepid Sultan of Swat, the fly chaser who refused to give up even when Jimmy Carter and Morarji Desai got in his way." As for the Secret Service's not-so-secret conversations, agents explained that they happened to be using the same frequency as the Casino de Paris...