Word: fearless
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...Dempsey the fearless, who has faced Carpentier, Firpo the "Argentine bull", and Tom Gibbons, the hardest hitter in the ring, without a qualm, lost his nerve. "Professor Dempsey? That's a hot one," he is reported to have said as he dismissed the crestfallen pedagogue...
...Mary Baker Eddy's fearless Christian Science prayer...
...Judge, "legal hairsplitter" (as the Republicans called him) "honest, impartial, fearless patriot" (as the Monarchists called him) found that Editor Rothardt was guilty of insulting the President, sentenced him to three months in jail and payment of all costs of the trial. Not content with sentencing the defendant, he proceeded to sentence the plaintiff by declaring that whether or no Herr Ebert joined the strikers to end the strike was immaterial, that he was technically guilty of treason -the President of the German Republic was a traitor. The Judge had killed two birds with the proverbial stone...
...easy to become the national champion bull-stabber. One usually begins young, as. a horse-wrangler or cattle-hand. One learns to be fearless with animals. Then one probably becomes apprenticed to a cuadrilla, or troupe, under some great matador. One watches, practices...
After all, its good to be back. There is a charm about the old place not to be denied. But those bothersome examinations! They cloud every happy thought. Then the student's real self, that fearless part of him which rises superior to the requirements for a degree, urges. "Courage! If you persevere, you'll get an education yet in spite of the petty demands of courses and the exigencies of examinations...