Word: gallant
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...describing Irish Gallant Man, unlucky second in the Kentucky Derby, as English-bred, TIME [May 20] has blundered and been unhorsed. The colt, by the Irish stallion Migoli out of the Irish mare Majideh, was foaled and reared at the Aga Khan's stud in County Kildare, Ireland, at whose studs in that county both his sire and dam were foaled...
...when the pack hit the homestretch, there was Iron Liege coming on to take the lead. Bold Ruler was out of it, despite a desperate whiplashing by Arcaro. Closing fast from almost last at the start was English-bred Gallant Man, ridden by California's great Willie Shoemaker. Driving for the wire, Gallant Man inched past Iron Liege. And then Jockey Shoemaker made a horrendous mistake. Thinking he had crossed the finish line, he eased off Gallant Man and stood up in the stirrups. It checked Gallant Man for an eye flick-and in that instant the issue...
Even without ace half-miler Jim Cairns, who had injured his knee in a freak accident last night, the previously unbeaten Crimson made a gallant fight and nearly pulled out a victory...
...Laws. William Faulkner has an unabashed sense of caste, honor and history. To him Appomattox was only yesterday, and he feels deeply "our gallant lost irrevocable unreconstructible debacle." This sense gives the tragic dimension to his novels, even when he appears merely to be telling elaborate stories of a little town in the Deep South. If the clowns are there, blowing up bladders in the wings and trading anecdotes with the witches, it is because his theater resembles Macbeth's and Shakespeare's. Another Elizabethan, Thomas ("Bad money drives out good'') Gresham. seems to have suggested...
...Cannon to right of them, Cannon to left of them, Cannon in front of them Volleyed and Thundered," as gallant Errol Flynn led the revengeful six hundred forward against Indja's infamous Surat Khan, murderer of Chukoti. Ahah, caught you that time; you probably thought the Light Brigade charged the Russians in the fated attack at Balaclava...