Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Aug. 13 mag you call me a "rock 'n' roll" disk jockey. I have been actively fighting the stuff for years, and am known far and wide as the fearless champion of genuine cornball music. This way-out rock 'n' roll is strictly for the squares...
...constitute one of the great source books of U.S. history is obvious. But it is as vastly enjoyable armchair adventure that Narratives of Exploration and Adventure can be put into the hands of anyone capable of being stirred by great undertakings. Georgia-born Engineer Frémont, intelligent and fearless as well as an accomplished scientist, imprisoned the frontier in his reports and maps. His pictures of Indian life, the buffalo herds, the astonishing terrain, are among the best recorded. Though he never lost sight of his practical objectives, he never ceased to be exhilarated by the wild beauty...
...fiction and features. "The magazines gradually became the instruments of original reporting, crusading, investigative reporting. The newspapers . . . gradually took on the former coloration of the magazines, with their fiction, features, crossword puzzles, panels, columnists, comics and other entertainments . . . Newspapers, many of them built to greatness on the tradition of fearless reporting, are only going through the motions of covering beats or waiting for the news releases to be thrown through the transom . . . It's much easier to hire wire services than to gather, write and print local news . . . You don't get into arguments with your readers over...
...Fearless Frank." His critics have accused Lausche, with some justification, of political timidity. (Opposition newspapers have sneeringly dubbed him "Fearless Frank,'' and even Loyalist Louis Seltzer editorially blasted him for compromising on a truck tax bill.) He runs the state with just two aides, and spends hours arguing with himself over difficult decisions (in such moments he frequently plays the violin). Like a chess player, he is always thinking three moves ahead, weighing the political consequences...
...greedy eyes and sly smile of the wolf." An enthusiastic claque clapped loudly at this, encouraging general assent from the other listeners. As Scars went on, however, the organized cheering section became more and more lonely. When he cited authority for unmasking Soviet aggression, naming David Lawrence as "a fearless American writer," Scars was forced to pause until the laughter died...