Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...later, Stanley got the highest battlefield decoration-a Silver Star-that the 2nd Division's commander, Major General James C. Fry, could award, and was recommended for a D.S.C. Then he jeeped down to a hospital to shake hands with Colonel Clark, who told him: "You were the bravest man I ever saw." Private Stanley shyly looked down at his big calloused hands and said: "Heck, I would have done the same thing for a private...
...even as primitive satire, the story is more tolerable than the usual musicomedy romance. There are some amusing burlesque ditties-Who Is the Bravest? and Every Street's a Boulevard in Old New York. There are glittering Miles White costumes and gay Harry Horner sets. As Hazel, Helen Gallagher is an attractive, versatile and spirited malade imaginaire. And, with New York for a locale and a tour of it as part of the plot, Hazel Flagg at times achieves the welcome variety and topicality of a revue...
...cats that guarded Milan's dilapidated, bomb-scarred old Central Railway Station, the best and bravest was Momi, a dirty-grey draftee from the Milanese back alleys. Sallying forth on mission after mission from her base in Control Tower C, Momi did more than any of her comrades from the other six towers to rid the station of the army of rats which swarmed over it after the Allied bombings of 1943. She was quicker to dodge the trains, more artful in picking her way through the lethal maze of high tension lines, fiercer and more cunning...
...told a sergeant major. "If you shoot them, I will see to it that you yourself are shot when the Americans reach here." The authority in her words and manner was too much for the noncom. The gates were opened and the four walked out. "It was the bravest deed I ever saw," said one of the officers later...
Back in England, Eric Williams learned the news of his friend's death. "He was quite the bravest, the most gifted and the most unassuming man I've ever met." Said Philpot, the third wooden-horseman: "It's appalling, but it's the way you might have expected...