Word: fearlessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Donnelly, who majored in Soviet studies at the London School of Economics, was struck by the relentlessness and brutality of the KGB. "But in their own way," she notes, "Bonner and Sakharov are every bit as relentless in fighting the system." Friedrich agrees: "It is a story of a fearless woman of indomitable character. It could be a story of a woman against the sea, against Mount Everest -- it has that adventure quality. We always think that the KGB cannot be resisted, but she resisted. You can almost see some wretched Soviet policeman wishing she would just go away...
...diminutive figure, full of fire, Tutu is seemingly fearless when he attacks a mob for giving way to violence. In June, he managed to arrange a cease-fire between young radicals and black vigilantes in the Crossroads camp outside Cape Town. But he can have difficulties controlling some groups of youths. Says he: "Young blacks are becoming increasingly committed to using violence, despite my calls for peaceful change. If I were younger, I would have rejected Tutu a long time...
...today's TV reporters, Murrow remains the all but universally acknowledged beau ideal. His fearless and candid World War II reporting taught not only America but Britain that journalism must be more than propaganda. Indeed, the BBC asked him to direct its programming, an honor he reluctantly declined. Later Murrow helped establish, at considerable personal cost, the principle that TV journalism must be as free, as challenging and as crusading as its counterparts in print. And he did so, unlike virtually any of his contemporaries, without ever having worked for a newspaper or having been steeped in print's traditions...
...preppie Steff in Pretty in Pink. "He's very much in touch with the adolescent part of himself," Sheedy says. It's a golden touch. Who wouldn't grab the chance to remake one's adolescence, in which the geek in one's closet now has the swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom night? "I think he's still trying to be popular at school," says Jon Cryer, who played Duckie, the geeky dervish in Pretty in Pink. "And more power to him. I mean, he wound up marrying a cheerleader...
...from our fearless leader to offer any criticism of Marcos for his election fraud, which included bringing the count to a standstill, threatening to invalidate the election, and finally placing vote totals on the tally board so at odds with the actual computer count that 30 members of his own election commission walked off the job Monday...