Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gallant young men made an effort to be soccer players, but essentially it was a pretense; they merely served to defect numerous Crimson shots at the Cornell goal by offering their bodies as a barrier. Clay pigeons (or gorillas) would have done just as well...
...social and business calendar; prices on unraced thoroughbreds run as high as $87,000. And Saratoga is still a "graveyard of favorites." It was there, in the 1930 Travers Stakes, that Jim Dandy, a 100-1 shot, galloped through the mud to beat Whichone and the Triple Crown winner, Gallant Fox; it was in the 1919 Sanford Stakes that Man o' War suffered the only defeat of his career at the heels of a horse named Upset. Kelso, three-time Horse of the Year and one of Man o' War's great-grandsons, helped even matters when...
...popular Gallic fairy tale that still passes for the history of France during World War II, he has always made an ideal ogre-a sinister greasy eminence who bamboozled the National Assembly into capitulating in 1940 and dragged Marianne in the muck by collaborating with Germany. When gallant Charles de Gaulle returned to slay this monster and (with some small American help) deliver France from thralldom, his countrymen threw Laval into a traitor's grave, hoping that five years of national guilt and failure might be buried with...
More than half the shows that were new last season will not return in the fall, including The Jetsons, Going My Way, The Gallant Men, I'm Dickens-He's Fenster, The Lloyd Bridges Show, Stoney Burke, Our Man Higgins, Stump the Stars, Fair Exchange, McKeever and the Colonel, Ensign O'Toole and Sam Benedict...
Drawing heavily upon Raul Hilberg's The Destruction of the European Jews for her information, Arendt tries to make the case that Jews were saved in those countries where the citizenry was gallant enough to object. The truth is less dramatic and more circumstantial. In countries like Denmark and Italy, which were only superficially controlled by the Nazis, the Jews were relatively safe. In countries run by the Nazis - Poland, Holland, Greece - the Jews were invariably massacred. Sad as it may be to record, the courage and the dedication of the local Resistance fighters made no difference...