Pragmatism in response to a fearsome combination of events was to be the hallmark of Healey's chancellorship, learning economics (he had studied classics) on the job to dominate the Treasury mandarins with a mixture of "excitement and fear".
Adlington's swim gave Great Britain their first medal in the pool and represented a fine return in the weaker of her two events against a fearsome field.
But judging for newspaper of the year took place last week and during that event, many noted a fearsome phenomenon.
It's the story of people caught up in events so frantic and fearsome that it becomes perilously easy to forget that essence should direct action, not the other way around.
Posters advertising those events make him look goggle-eyed, even fearsome.
He packs in a fearsome amount of detail and accuracy into the many events portrayed here, and as a result, the RAF are shown to be the murderous, directionless thugs they quickly evolved into.
Focussing my attention sharply on the news through the work of reporting helped me to clarify my perspective on the events, which, at first flush and from a fearsome distance, seemed so bewildering.
Though reporters are said to have pondered just how much the event had been stage managed in advance, the images of fearsome-looking Libyan women -- from young teens to grandmothers -- wielding rifles and weapons are nonetheless frightening.
But such events are now not just more common, they are occasionally more fearsome than expected.
The duo have been a fearsome undefeated partnership since they joined up in 2010, winning all three World Cup events this summer in the build-up to the Games.
