Her mother maintained four children by buying and selling properties which she renovated; she had an intrepidity of character that her daughter inherited: Agnes, a strong, thickset woman, installed her own plumbing in the sailmaker's loft she bought in Manhattan in 1957; in New Mexico, she built herself an adobe house.
Back in 1937, Leon Trotsky was bowled over by the way London "not only absorbed creatively the impetus given by the first Russian revolution [of 1905] but also courageously thought over again in its light the fate of capitalist society as a whole … [He] felt with an intrepidity which forces one to ask himself again and again with astonishment: when was this written?
At Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, 5 August until 2 October Benjamin West, Alexander III of Scotland Rescued from the Fury of a Stag by the Intrepidity of Colin Fitzgerald, 1786 West was a painter of history on a grand scale and here the artist who portrayed The Death of Wolfe turns his attention to Scottish national legend.
Macnamara had already developed a reputation for intrepidity bordering on recklessness, and he displayed these qualities again in an attack on the 18-gun Spanish brig Corso in a strong gale under enemy shore batteries.
The Medal of Honor was created in 1861, early in the American Civil War, to give recognition to men who distinguished themselves "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity" in combat with an enemy of the United States.
Kerry was in combat in Vietnam for four months, and he came home with three Purple Hearts for relatively minor wounds, a Bronze Star "for heroic achievement," a Silver Star "for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action," and with what he called his "war notes," hundreds of handwritten pages of journals and impressions.
Ross joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1942, and he was awarded a Silver Star for "conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action" for his heroics at the Battle of Guadalcanal (August 1942 February 1943), where he was wounded.
A fine cast, brilliant direction by Elia Kazan and intrepidity in citing such names as Bilbo, Rankin and Gerald L. K. Smith give it realism and authenticity.
Public Law 88-77, July 25, 1963: The requirements for the Medal of Honor were standardized among all the services, requiring that a recipient had "distinguished himself conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty".
On reaching England, Franklin joined the Bellerophon, 74, and in that ship he was again entrusted with the signals, a duty which he executed with his accustomed coolness and intrepidity in the great battle of Trafalgar, while those stationed around him on the poop fell fast, and were all, with only four or five exceptions, either killed or wounded.
Thus fell a hero possessing the tenacity of Grant, the valor of Hancock, the intrepidity of Kearny, and no little of the organizing faculty of McClellan.
