Word: gallant
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...successive week he was having a fling. Warmed by the success of his maiden speech as Leader of the Commons (TIME, March 9), the Red Squire last week begged the United Nations to snuggle more closely into bed. "After the victory," he said, "let us remain in the same gallant company to rebuild a stricken world upon the foundations of justice and equality that will secure for us, for them and for all the people of the world a happier, saner and more peaceful future...
...purchase four fighter planes for use "on fronts where they could aid Russia." She asked that three of the planes be named for her sons, that the fourth be called "MacRobert Salute to Russia (Lady)." "Had I been a man, I, too would have flown," said gallant Lady MacRobert...
...many half-nude jockeys to direct American drivers inside. "When the attack was over," said the General, "the remnants of the tanks and of the Igorots were still there, but the 20th Japanese Infantry Regiment was completely annihilated. . . . When you tell that story, stand in tribute to those gallant Igorots...
...only leader of open warfare against Adolf Hitler on the continent of Europe today is a gallant, stocky man who likes to play peasant songs on the mandolin. For months, in the Yugoslav mountains south of Belgrade, General Draja Mihailovich and his 100,000 super-guerrillas have fought off as many as seven German divisions (TIME, Dec. 15), inspired by a magnificent will to resist. But recently General Mihailovich radioed the exiled Yugoslav Government in London that his ammunition was running...
...British were wonderfully gallant as they attacked the German Fleet, steaming along under clouds, smoke screens and what seemed like a carapace of planes; but gallantry was not enough. The fact was that the Germans had won an important naval battle simply by not losing it. And they had won it by employing the great new naval weapon which the British still fight against in more ways than one, the airplane...