Word: intrepidly
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...paper-chases, parlor games and mechanical pianos of the most bourgeois Court, barring Victoria's, of a bourgeois century, did not make Eugenie a happy woman. So, like many another disenchanted housewife, Eugenie went in for good works with her sleeves up. She was a tremendously energetic, genuinely intrepid woman, and her conduct during a cholera epidemic endeared her to the public. And at a time when Frenchwomen were 80% illiterate, she did work of permanent value for the education...
After returning from France in 1919, George Krim, with a new set of sergeant's chevrons on his sleeve, became a regular soldier and a tankman. Over two decades he built up a quiet reputation as an engine expert, an intrepid tester of tanks. When the Armored Forces was organized in 1941, Sergeant Krim was one of the few men who knew much about a branch in which the money-shy U.S. Army had long been weak. He became an instructor. After many months somebody discovered that George Krim deserved more from the Army. Result: forthright promotion...
...would never think, to look at him, that solemn-faced Staff Sergeant Maynard H. Smith is a dashing soldier, an intrepid airman. He is a calm, unimpressive man who stands five feet four. In civilian life he worked variously as an income-tax field agent and an assistant receiver for the Michigan State Banking Commission...
...late yesterday afternoon he was inspired. He was a long way from Warren House, on Brattle Street, no less, and it was deadline time in English A. But intrepid Albie thought fast. In the back yard was a one worn but sturdy tricycle, not bicycle--tricycle...
Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...