Word: intrepidly
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High in the Memorial Church bell tower, danger lurks. Or at least danger could lurk. That’s why one intrepid FM reporter and his trusty escort, occasional bell ringer and Harvard Planning and Real Estate employee Richard D. Campbell, suit up in safety harnesses and hard hats to climb the half a dozen ladders and scramble across the catwalk to reach the tower...
Back in 1979 author Thomas Harris was in Mississippi writing a novel about an intrepid detective named Will Graham who was on the trail of a particularly gruesome serial killer dubbed the Red Dragon. During long nocturnal walks through a cotton field, Harris came up with an ingeniously creepy notion: Graham would seek expert advice from a murderer he had captured years earlier--the baddest serial killer of them all, one Dr. Hannibal Lecter...
KILLED. RODDY SCOTT, 31, intrepid British freelance journalist and cameraman who chose a hazardous career documenting neglected conflicts in such places as Sierra Leone, Yemen, Iraq, Afghanistan and Ethiopia; by a bullet in the eyepiece of his camera while filming a firefight between Chechen rebels and Russian troops; in Ingushetia. Russian forces discovered Scott's body among dozens of dead Chechen rebels...
...first Clay All Night party was held in September last year and, in official violation of campus party rules, really did last all night. Over 300 undergraduates came over the course of the evening, with the last intrepid, clay-encrusted partiers staying until 5 am. Selvage blames a racy flier (a relic of which still hangs in a case above past Clay All Night masterpieces) and extended hours for the overwhelming turnout. At a second Clay All Night event held during reading period last winter, the hours were reduced per Dean’s Office rules and a photo...
...novelist who can fashion an elegant grownup story as if it were a piece of soft aluminum. But the opportunity to plunge into the burdleburple of sheer fantasy is one reason he wrote Summerland (Hyperion/Miramax; 500 pages), the kind of book that features a motherly Sasquatch, some intrepid kids, numerous giants and "werefoxes," and several cliff-hanger baseball games on which the fate of the whole world just happens to hinge, plus a giant, prognosticating clam...