Word: intrepidity
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1960
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Gallup, who claims a 1.7% total error for his presidential predictions since 1948 (despite the fact that, with certain exceptions, his intrepid clipboard artists poll only 1,500 people in a nation of 181 million*), admitted that he would be lucky to come off with a 4% error this time. Reasons: 1) the religion issue "helps and hurts," 2) there is a marked lack of enthusiasm for either candidate, and 3) the popular vote, as polled so far is so close that a small change in either direction could mean an electoral landslide. Along with the familiar...
...eyes of his own people, hurt his position in the Communist bloc as well. (During the U-2 uproar, China's Mao Tse-tung noted caustically: "This ought to convince those naive enough to put their trust in imperialists.") Asked by the New York Herald Tribune's intrepid Moscow correspondent Tom Lambert to explain what he had meant by saying in Paris that his "attitude on the U-2 flight was due in some measure to the domestic political situation in the U.S.S.R.," Khrushchev denied that he had ever made any such remark. "I simply do not understand...
...world found out last week, Francis Powers, onetime U.S. Air Force first lieutenant, was off on an intrepid flight that would ultimately carry him up the spine of the Soviet Union. From south to north, his high-flying instruments would record the effectiveness of Russian radar, sample the air for radioactive evidence of illicit nuclear tests. The U2's sensitive infra-red cameras could sweep vast arcs of landscape, spot tall, thin smokestacks or rocket blasts-if there were any-on pads far below...
...concerned" about the effect of the arrest of plotters on "basic humanitarian principles in the Americas." But the U.S. Navy, not keyed in, sent seven ships to Ciudad Trujillo harbor to let the crews have liberty ashore. The imposing sight of the anchored U.S. Aircraft Carrier Intrepid, with its jets ready on the flight deck, and of bluejackets all over the streets, gave most Dominicans the impression that the U.S. was backing Trujillo...
...intrepid explorers scramble down volcanic chimneys, bathe in a grotto lined with glittering quartzes, stagger through regions of miasmal fumes and luminous algae, survive an attack by giant lizards, sail on a raft across an underground sea, get wrecked in the whirlpool that spins around the planet's axis, stumble into sunken Atlantis, and finally are sucked into a volcanic vent and blown out the top of Mount Stromboli (altitude: 3,040 ft.) into the Tyrrhenian...