Word: unafraid
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...power to reach across the generation gap and select ministers and advisers for his team who are in their late 30s and early 40s. They represent a new Russia, too young to be burdened by memories of Stalin, old enough to have learned during the detente era to be unafraid of the outside world...
...quit both booze (gradually, all by himself) and coke (cold turkey, all by himself), but unlike many of today's celebrity recoverers, Williams has not succumbed to just-say-no zealotry. While he knows cocaine is "a totally selfish drug" and a dead end, he's also unafraid to recall the fun. "It was always around. 'Robin, want to do some blow? Want to do some blow in a back room with some very famous people?' 'Oh, yeah...
...Philippines at Leyte, Chickering was among the first ashore. "Correspondents are supposed to be an intrepid lot," he wrote. Nevertheless, Chickering was well aware of the dangers of combat. In January 1945, while serving aboard the battleship New Mexico, he penned a humorous spoof titled "How to Be Unafraid in Warfare, Though Panic-Stricken," in which he poked fun at some of the risks of war. On Jan. 6, at 28, he was killed when a Japanese plane carrying a bomb crashed on the navigation bridge of the New Mexico...
Citizens poured into the streets, determined, methodical and -- the biggest change in a Russian experience suffused with a genius for official terror -- astonishingly unafraid. They defied the junta's curfew, built barricades around the Russian Parliament Building, where Boris Yeltsin had organized his resistance. They had absorbed something about people power from Prague, Berlin, even Vilnius. A crowd of Muscovites brought a column of armored personnel carriers (APCs) to a halt, stuffing rosebuds and wildflowers into gun barrels. A line of women stood ready to face down troops with a single banner: SOLDIERS: DON'T SHOOT MOTHERS AND SISTERS. Clearly...
Guidotti says that "Colin's temperament is very much like John Silber's. He's unafraid to make certain statements and willing to work as vigorously as possible for what he believes. If John Silber were to have a lookalike on the Harvard campus, it would be Colin...