Word: gallant
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...fought among themselves over whether to surrender. Few insisted on dying for the Fi-hrer, although they had been ordered to fight to the death, and many fought their last battle literally with a revolver at their backs. Reported TIME Correspondent Charles Christian Wertenbaker: "The prisoners do not look gallant now; in fact they never were very gallant...
...Pearl Harbor's wake, China briefly exulted, then despaired. Within six months the Japs took the Philippines, Singapore, the Indies, Burma. Their ring around China was complete. The U.S. was very busy elsewhere. General Claire Chennault's A.V.G., the feeble beginnings of the Fourteenth Air Force, were gallant mockeries of China's first hopes. But China hung...
...support the Chinese, Claire Chennault's tiny Fourteenth Air Force did its gallant best. More than 1,000 sorties were flown in a week* against river shipping and roads clogged with Jap columns. But the Fourteenth's forces were spread thin over a big and complicated theater...
...Georgie Patton, the Senators, who had brooded seven months over his case, indicated that they might relent later. Said one Committeeman: "If he does something gallant in the field, if he makes a good record in the invasion, he'll probably come through all right. But he'll have to keep his mouth shut and control his temper...
...while that Kel was being made to recite the Constitution--Tom Gaines for marching without the aid of his Seeing Eye dog. Jack Frost says, "Gaines is the only man in the world whose Seeing Eye dog needs a Seeing Eye dog."--Bob "Pancho" Bisbe, for his gallant, well-concealed maneuver in removing one ambidextrous spider from a friend's neck--Vern Nelson for marching all the time without his book...