Word: braved
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Good God," said Lyndon Johnson, quoting George Washington's eve-of-battle prayer, "what brave men must I lose this day?" Adding his own invocation to that of the negotiators in Pans to still the guns, the President last week paid homage to four heroes of Viet Nam in a unique Pentagon ceremony, hanging the star-spangled blue silk ribbon and bronze star of the Medal of Honor around the necks of a soldier, a sailor, a Marine and an Air Force pilot. >Army Specialist Five Charles C. Hagemeister, 21, has the kind of bravery that often prompts Viet...
...Savage Seven begins with a bare-chested Indian looming in the foreground, knife in hand. Another brave leaps forward and they begin to grapple to the death. Then comes an offscreen voice, "Will you guys quit screwing around?" The time is the present, and the Indians are a bunch of tribesmen trapped in a California poverty pocket. From out of the hills comes the Enemy, on wheels-and suddenly the ignoble savages find themselves in a stereotypical motorcycle picture...
...three sons of King Hamund ride forth to avenge their father's death at the hands of neighboring King Sigvor, played by the noted Swedish actor, Gunnar Björnstrand. They are met by Sigvor's three sons. All six of them are blond and beautiful and brave; they hammer at one another all day in endless rounds of mounted combat. Then they declare the blood feud over and retire to a sauna romp and a brotherly banquet, at which
...alcohol? You know it! Say, can you imagine Judgment Day, when all us swingers are standing there with our beads and beer and grass? Account for something? That went out years ago. We're safe; we'll make it because there's no conscience in a "brave new world...
...Charles Collingwood's television special [April 19] may well become known as Hanoi's Finest Hour. Rarely has so much been insinuated to so many by so few real facts-or by such edited and contrived film footage. We are shown the brave defenders amidst their showcase rubble and under their manhole covers; Hanoi's almost tranquil orderliness contrasted with the confusion of corrupt Saigon; and with presumably straight faces we watch the military traffic flow south to fight the American aggressors, having only admiration for the resiliency and cleverness of the North Vietnamese as they thwart...