Word: gallantly
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...daybreak the entire town of Kilgarry, priest included, turns up on the beach to help the gallant militants gather guns and dynamite. It is the very picture of a spontaneous uprising-capped, when O'Leary's truck sticks in the sand, by the masses putting their shoulder to the wheel and impelling the Leninist vanguard onward. One must, after all, come from the people as well as go to them. This vanguard, unluckily, makes it only as far as the top of the hill, where it is met by the major with a full complement of rifles and mortars...
...What courageous men we have in the Senate, speaking out against our gallant soldiers risking their lives to rescue our precious youth from the camps in North Viet Nam. Kennedy and Fulbright seem to think that volunteering one's life to save another is senseless...
...average musical's book is just an excuse for letting go with lots of song and dance, Dumas' bizarrely complicated plot is just an excuse for action and dueling and general running about. Although the king himself, at the urging of the insidious Richelieu, has outlawed the duel, his gallant musketeers still try to work through worn-out codes of loyalty and honor, something that the Cardinal's guards don't share. As a result, every duel devolves into chaos and confusion. And also a good deal of fun. Hamlin's actors seem to have jumped into the project with...
NEARLY two decades before the Middle East completely lost its romantic Lawrence of Arabia aura and became a brutal battlefield, two young cousins sat on neighboring thrones: Feisal II in Iraq, Hussein in Jordan. Handsome, carefree, gallant, the two young Kings were installed on the same day in 1953. Their dual reigns were a spectacular achievement for the ancient Hashemite dynasty...
Ever ready to take up a cause, Actress Vanessa Redgrave last week proffered aid to 18 Black Power demonstrators who had been jailed after clashing with London police. She posted herself outside the Marylebone Magistrates' Court and announced she would stand bail for anyone who needed it. Gallant though it was, her gesture proved to be empty; all of the defendants were freed on bail without her help to await their trials in October...