Word: fearlessly
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Adolf Galland, a fearless, cigar-chomping flyer, was the youngest major general in German history. He learned to fly a glider in the post-Versailles days when the Germans were forbidden an air force. He learned to fight as a member of the German "volunteer" Condor Legion in Spain, came home a squadron leader. In 1942, after three years of World War II, Fighter Pilot Galland was 30, a major general, a top-ranking ace, and inspector general of the Luftwaffe fighter command. After his 94th kill, Hitler personally hung the diamond-studded Knight's Cross around Galland...
...suspenseful but losing battle against Yugoslavia's Communist hierarchy. It was a rare sight: a deep and significant squabble deep inside a Communist family circle, but carried out in almost full view of the outside world. Charged with heresy, Djilas, the ousted party philosopher, and Dedijer, the fearless partisan comrade and biographer of Tito, had been offered the opportunity of swallowing their views and fading away without harsher punishment...
...point, Schlesinger said, "For Democrats to make concessions because the press is hostile to them is to be disloyal to the Democratic party. Hope lies in the fearless, courageous leadership of various state leaders like Averell Harriman in New York, Ed Muskie in Maine, Bob Meyner in New Jersey, and Mennen Williams in Michigan...
...legs, but when war began, not even the King's Regulations could hold him back. He got back into the R.A.F. as a fighter pilot, eventually led five squadrons of more than 60 planes, and became "the R.A.F.'s first wing leader." He was a swashbuckling, pugnacious, fearless flyer who would fly ten sweeps in seven days, then stomp about on the ground, hungering to get into the air again. He was one of the few to whom so many owed so much through the Battle of Britain, and even among those few, he stood out. Only...
Sheldon Glueck, Roscoe Pound Professor of Law, who worked with Hooton on studies of delinquency, praised him: "Professor Hooton's untimely death comes as a great shock to all who knew him as a man of profound and fearless scholarship and delightful and original wit. Harvard and the world of anthropology have suffered a great loss...