Word: gallanting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...every sort of everyday act from walking in the rain to gazing at a rainbow. Feininger also saw mystery in the machine, but his machines tended to come either from the past or from way off in the future. His nostalgic Old Locomotive is almost like a person-a gallant, superannuated old gentleman that keeps chugging along out of sheer determination and stubborn pride...
...American Farm Bureau Federation has long waged a gallant-and losing-war against heavy-handed Government controls on agriculture...
...Governor-elect George C. Wallace rattled his battle plans in a speech before the Mississippi state legislature. "All that I am advocating is that these forces of evil bridle themselves in their lustful desires to destroy the South," he said. Like Mississippi's Ross Barnett ("your gallant Governor"), Alabama's Wallace hopes to foil desegregation by making himself "chief official defendant" in a fight against the "Department of Iniquity," meaning Justice...
Quite the happiest gallant...
Australia's gallant sailors were hardly out of sight before another nation challenged the U.S. for the America's Cup, international yachting's oldest and most prized trophy. Having tried and failed 16 times in the past in years, Britain wanted to race again-and the sooner the better. To the New York Yacht Club went a formal challenge from London's Royal Thames Yacht Club proposing a race next summer. One new British 12-meter yacht was already abuilding in Scotland (her designer: David Boyd, who also designed the ill-starred Sceptre, which lost four...