Word: intrepidity
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forces into the teeth of the German advance, twice a day played items like Wagner's Rienzi Overture and Mozart's Eine Kleine Nachtmusik for cheering servicemen at Eindhoven and Ghent, and squeezed in a few extra concerts for Belgian civilians. At week's end the intrepid Manchesterites were still...
...lucky, get the 55? a la carte breakfast in less than an hour's time. But the eggs are cold and vulcanized, the bacon soggy, the toast black, the coffee thin and acid-and the waitress doesn't care. And at night the intrepid traveler is not surprised to return and find the room still unmade, the bureau still undusted and the damp towel still on the untidied washstand. If the night is chill he may as well go sit in the lobby: no one knows where the blankets are. If he tries to phone for help...
...tiptoed along red carpets and emerged in Grand Hall, an oblong place filled with marble pillars and gilded cherubs. There was George VI, King, Emperor, in the flesh, handing out medals and shaking hands with intrepid subjects who were queued up in a long line...
...tried it, but no one laughed at the handful of ink I had as a result. No doubt our intrepid Commander in Chief knows a trick or two but can he make ink flow uphill...
...quietly intrepid priest (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) is no showy hero. He tries to conduct a religious service strictly on the sly; it is only when his death stares him in the face that he stands erect and prays aloud...