Word: gallantly
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...Jean Estéva, made good his escape from Tunisia. In Estéva's post as Tunisia's Resident General. General Giraud plunked his own man: tall, jolly General Alphonse Juin, French field commander in Tunisia, to administer the protectorate until the permanent Resident General, impetuous, gallant General Charles Mast, recovers from injuries received in a recent automobile accident...
...Russian people listening in on radios to Stalin's May 1 Order of the Day last week heard him use, for the first time, the unqualified Casablanca phrase: "Unconditional surrender." They heard him refer, with a warmth and force he had never before displayed, to the "gallant Anglo-American air forces" over Europe, to "the victorious troops" in North Africa, and to "one single, common blow" by the Russians in the east, the U.S. and Britain in the west. And they heard him say: "A new blow is approaching when the Red Army, together with the armies...
This mood had solid roots: many Americans wanted to see not year-old pictures of one gallant but pitifully meager raid, but fresh, day-old pictures of raid after raid that leveled Japan into a shambles where not an altar, not a paper house, not a cherry tree still stood whole, and where nothing moved in the ruins...
...sailed to get his share was short, swarthy Captain Andrew Vilicich, master of the sleek, 77-ft. Gallant. Like most West Coast fishermen, Captain Vilicich is a year-round worker, goes after tuna from April to July, sardines from August to March. On his boat he took in $112,000 last year. His crew collected $61,000; he got all the rest. This kind of money has made Fisherman Vilicich the next thing to an economic royalist: he owns his ship (value: $30,000), a share in a San Francisco sardine plant, a comfortable, two-story house, sends...
...France. He has strong support in Britain, where he has worked closely with British officials. A Hyde Park comic drew laughs last week by purposefully mixing up Free, Fighting and Flirtatious French; but to the British people and Frenchmen imprisoned in their homeland De Gaulle is respected as a gallant fighter who carried high the French tricolor when other Frenchmen faltered, compromised...