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...bravest seiz'd the butter-plates...
...Frontier Province, 92% Moslem, voted adherence to Pakistan. Ghaffar Khan then set up a clamor for a separate Pathan nation, to be called Pathanistan or Pukhtoonistan. Once again he was jailed for subversion -this time by the Pakistan government. India's Jawaharlal Nehru called him "one of the bravest and straightest men in India" and bewailed his imprisonment, saying it was "a thorn in my heart...
...Middle East. If not the paradise that propagandists sometimes paint, Turkey is stable, strong, democratic, progressive, booming. No nation stands so steadfast against Russia. In NATO it is the free world's strong southern anchor; in the Korean war, its brigade was the "BB Brigade," the Bravest of Brave. Turkish landing fields put U.S. strategic air half an hour away by jet from the Baku oilfields of Russia...
...well-read moppets know, the smallest and bravest of the twelve little girls was Madeline. Ludwig Bemelmans' 1939 picture-and-verse classic told how Madeline came triumphantly through one of the most delightful appendectomies in literature. It also made his heroine's name a household word with a host of youngsters and their elders, who, having to read the thing aloud night after night, found grown-up delight in Bemelmans' warmly colored fantasies of Paris...
...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...