Word: unafraidness
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...thereafter. Until his death in 1913, Schlieffen had reiterated: "Make the right wing strong." But his successor, General Helmuth von Moltke, was a Christian Scientist, a cello player, and a cautious man: he weakened the right wing to strengthen the line elsewhere. When the preposterous Russians, unequipped, untrained and unafraid, invaded East Prussia, Moltke forgot Schlieffen and diverted two corps from the Belgian drive to the Russian front. The two corps were never needed; General Erich Ludendorff routed the Russians at Tannenberg before his reinforcements arrived...
Having won its wager in the presence of prying television cameras and all the world's press, the U.S. could take special satisfaction in the fact that its spacemen did not keep secrets from science. They had worked in the open, unafraid of failure, unshielded by the compulsive secrecy that still surrounds much of the voyage of Yuri Gagarin's Vostok. Now, like Kilroy, Shepard had been there-and while he traveled, the world had watched...
...After other warnings against a family tendency to gamble and speculate in wildcat stocks. Jack Kelly bade a moving farewell to all his loved ones: "Just remember, when I shove off for greener pastures, or whatever it is on the other side of the curtain, that I do it unafraid, and, if you must know, a little...
...just about the last of the dyed-in-the-wool liberals, and a poorboy (see box) "spokesman" for the "plain people." Adroit Campaigner Humphrey based his pitch on the claim that Vice President Richard Nixon can be beaten only by a nominee who can "carry the fight, campaign vigorously, unafraid, defend the record of his party, [and who can] start out with the props whirling, full steam ahead . . . and even prepare for some turbulent weather." But first there was the matter of getting the Democratic nomination: he would enter the primaries in Wisconsin and South Dakota (where...
...every country," said he, "I hope to make widely known America's deepest desire: a world in which all nations may prosper in freedom, justice and peace, unmolested and unafraid...