Word: intrepidly
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...liberty. . . . If any Government is deprived of force . . . it will be at the mercy of the first group organized and determined to overthrow it. . . . Liberty is no longer a chaste, severe maiden for whom generations in the first half of the last century fought and died. For the intrepid, restless youths . . . order, hierarchy and discipline. Fascismo is not afraid to declare itself illiberal or antiliberal. It has already passed, and if necessary will pass again, without the slightest hesitation, over the more or less decomposed body of the goddess of liberty...
...immediately after his inauguration. Mr. Buchanan was a quiet, democratic gentleman. During the Civil War, Mr. Wise knew Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. He carried the last message from General Lee to the president of the Confederacy and came to know him well. He was stubborn and egotistical, though intrepid and courageous in every way. Andrew Johnson was one of the guests at Mr. Wise's wedding. He met President Grant in a train one evening and talked with him about the Civil War; he was a clever and brilliant talker...
...Tripolitans floated the frigate, raised the guns, and the refitted ship lay under the guns of the forts when the "Intrepid", a small ketch, brought in by night about 75 men led by Lieutenant Decatur and a Sicilian pilot. The frigate was boarded and burnt, and the ketch escaped under fire of the harbor guns...
...foresaw that the conflict between the opposing forms of civilization was not only irresistible but was coming to a bloody issue in spite of all compromises and palliation. He saw that slavery must be destroyed or it would destroy the nation. And he was a man of such intrepid courage that he was willing to undertake in all calmness of mind what in another person would have been insanity. Invincible courage, even in a doubtful cause, is sure to inspire and find applause among other brave men. Thus when we honor you, soldiers of the Grand Army of the Republic...
...north, this intrepid explorer, finding his vessel, the "Fram," solidly frozen in the ice, started with one companion, Johansen, for the unknown regions of the North Pole. They left their vessel, equipped with three sledges, two kyacks, and twenty-eight dogs, with provisions for the dogs for thirty days, and for themselves for one hundred days. When this stock was exhausted they lived on seal, walrus and bear meat, when they could get it. The account of the months these two hardy men spent in the polar regions is most thrilling. When a dog died or fell...