Word: unafraidness
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...underrate the ingrained tenacity of Viet Minh Communism. One day one of Diem's Nationalist soldiers accidentally kicked over a wreath the Viet Minh had left behind on a monument to their dead. A young Camau kid quietly stepped out from a group of passers-by and, unafraid, laid the wreath back in its place...
...Dear God," I prayed-all unafraid (As girls are wont to be) "I do not want a handsome man- But let him be like Thee; I do not need one big and strong, Nor one so very tall, Nor need he be some genius, Or wealthy, Lord, at all; . . . (But) let his face have character- A ruggedness of soul, And let his whole life show, dear God, A singleness of goal...
...than that.' Some of the Viets were laughing, but there was no attempt to mistreat us. The Viets said in French for our doctors, orderlies and walking wounded to form column, and they led them away. They later took away our nurse, Miss de Galard.* She looked as unafraid as ever. I also saw the Viets taking General de Castries. He was wearing his mudstained battledress and his red overseas cap. He looked detached and impassive. He climbed into a jeep between two heavily armed Viet soldiers, and was driven away...
Then came a jarring change in the procedure. Jenkins pointed out that, having elicited through direct examination the Stevens version of the Army-McCarthy dispute, it now became the committee counsel's duty to try to test that version through crossexamination. Having already demonstrated that he was totally unafraid of McCarthy, Jenkins began to rough Stevens up; his way of being impartial was to carry chips on both of his huge shoulders. As he began to cross-examine Stevens, Jenkins' tone grew harsher, he clapped his hands to emphasize his words, he stabbed at the table with...
...decisive world leader. Truman failed to grasp the meaning of world leadership. Truman's foreign policy, once it recognized the Russian threat, is not all black nor all white on his matter, but Europeans strongly opposed to Communism characterized the world situation like this: Russia is weak and unafraid; America is strong and afraid...