Word: unafraid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...there since, rising at 1:30 every morning, traveling two hours by rail to the closely guarded mines, working until 1 in the afternoon for his daily meal of watery soup and monthly wage of 350 marks (about $30). Oskar is among the lucky. Young and strong and still unafraid, he probably will soon be flown to the West. All miners are welcome in the Ruhr...
...admirers say that he is a political prodigy who has grown up, a seasoned administrator (he was elected governor four years before Dewey), a pre-Pearl Harbor internationalist who has seen postwar Europe and Asia with his own eyes, a man unafraid to speak his mind. They feel that he is a natural leader who understands the problems and has drawn the support of labor, business, and agriculture; a proved vote-getter who was elected as a Republican three times in a state which Roosevelt carried four times; a man who stands the best chance of luring the independent vote...
Napoleon was unafraid of cannon because he was afraid of something else: cancer. So says Esther H. Vincent, librarian at Northwestern Medical School, in the current Surgery, Gynecology and Obstetrics, official journal of the American College of Surgeons. Writes Miss Vincent: "This fixed idea that he would die from cancer of the stomach saved [Napoleon] from fear of death in any other form. Wounded in battle, he took no heed, for he knew he would not die from bullets. His belief in his charmed life was not fearlessness [nor] faith in his 'miraculous invulnerability,' but certainty that death...
...Providence College, has held almost every party job from ward heeler up. He was his state's governor three times. He demonstrated his vote-getting talent in 1944, when he ran 10,000 votes ahead of Franklin Roosevelt. In the Senate, McGrath has been serious, hardworking, unafraid of the toughest Republican jousters, and New Dealish...
Liberty-loving Uruguayans are proud of the unafraid and unaffected ways of their Presidents, who often drive their own cars, take their coffee in public places, without escort. Uruguay's new President, modest, serious Luis Batlle Berres (TIME, Aug. 11), follows the tradition. He has no bodyguard; there are no guards around his 30-acre quinta (farm) on the banks of the Santa Lucia River, twelve miles from Montevideo. But freedom has its risks. One night last week thieves got into the presidential chicken house, made off with 50 of His Excellency's 200 birds...