Word: braved
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sure has been a thrill to see the Stars and Stripes so brave...
...offensive against the Reds was led by a rugged, fiery Corsican, Pierre Ferri-Pisani, now 50. He and Brown had met in-Marseille, become friends. With Brown's help, Ferri-Pisani found "men brave enough," went to Communist headquarters in Marseille and delivered an ultimatum: "If there is any trouble on the docks, we will not bother with the men you send to cause it. No, within 48 hours we will ask you to pay personally." Red bosses ran for police protection. The first Communist who tried to fire Ferri-Pisani's men was chucked into the harbor...
Restaurants, pastry shops, even a nightclub or two were back in operation. Souvenir sellers were doing a land-office business with G.I. customers. Korean-made flags of the U.S. Confederacy made a brave display at one stall, alongside the flags of South Korea. Other Seoul factories were busily turning out soap, matches and rubber shoes-and cooking utensils made largely of aluminum salvaged from wrecked warplanes...
...fight. Like most civilians, Lincoln thought that generals were supposed to fight, and" in his letters he kept begging them to do so. If the Confederacy's Lee and Jackson could raise the devil using smaller numbers, why couldn't the North, with men just as brave, get in a sound lick now & then? Sadly the President was forced into a job he did not want and was not prepared for. He became his own general. Not until he gratefully handed the job to Grant did Lincoln find a hard-hitting top general, and by that time...
With Grant and Sherman, the President found himself backed for the first time by generals who believed as he did, that the Union's real objective was the Confederate Army. Never again would Lincoln have to complain: "Thus, often, I, who am not a specially brave man, have had to sustain the sinking courage of these professional fighters in critical times...