Word: braved
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...story is told that a British colonel at Kazvin, whither the anti-Bolshevik forces had retreated, spotted among the Cossack Brigade's remaining officers a striking six-foot Persian with hard grey eyes. His name was Reza Khan. The colonel knew him for a brave man and, in a last desperate attempt to keep the brigade together, he put him in command. Had he not done so, the future King of Kings might have died an unknown old horse bully...
These were brave words. But the very fact of their utterance, by Russia's northern commander, Marshal Klimenti Voroshilov, not to his troops but to the people of Leningrad-a military commander exhorting the unmilitary horde to action-indicated a sense of strategic desperation. The words seemed a prologue to their own disproving...
...this was very Russian, very melancholy, very brave. But daily the Germans came closer to the penetration which Klimenti Voroshilov had, Canute-like, ordered back with words. At week's end he wrote...
Call to the Conquered. Few orators since Demosthenes have evoked the emotional quality of the Prime Minister's great exhortation to the conquered. "Do not despair, brave Norwegians: your land shall be cleansed, not only from the invader but from the filthy Quislings who are his tools...
...countess who admired gangster slang: "What do you know, you mug, about this gimmick?" In Germany he saw the old vicious guns of World War I scrapped in a field near Kiel, read in the papers of an America no American has ever seen, and talked to a brave old pastor who was ''headed as sure as Christ Himself" for a concentration camp...