Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Prairie Provinces solidly behind him, thanks to the Tories' $425.6 million wheat sales to Red China. To the farmers, the fact that the eastern financial and industrial interests, the big-city vote and all major Conservative newspapers but two were against him, made his candidacy only the more gallant...
Died. General Sir Harold Edmund Franklyn, 77, commander of Britain's beleaguered 5th Division in France in 1940. whose gallant attack with his badly outnumbered forces at Arras so alarmed the German High Command that it delayed the Nazi advance, thereby giving the British 24 extra hours during the retreat to Dunkirk; of a heart attack; in Newbury, Berkshire...
Dillinger himself was a longtime admirer of Douglas Fairbanks. When robbing banks, he vaulted over the partition to the cashier's cage rather than force his way through the door. He loved the gallant gesture: when he ordered a bank clerk to lie flat during one of his holdups, he insisted on spreading a teller's smock for her on the floor...
...Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Any-More, by Tennessee Williams, raises the specter of death before a horrible and gallant old woman, magnificently played by Hermione Baddeley, and conjures up the temptations of the world, the flesh and the devil before a Christ figure whom Paul Roebling makes as real as this strange religious allegory will permit...
...that," but what are Westerners to make of his theory of Naziism and Communism, which has Hitler representing the male principle and Stalin the female? What would Freud himself make of Rama's explanation of psychoanalysis in terms of the Indian rope trick? Or Madeleine's gallant effort to see origins of the myth of the Holy Grail in the begging bowl of an Indian holy...