Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sixth were men of the southwest U.S., Indians from 20 Arizona and New Mexico tribes. The Marines were the valiant 1st Division, veterans of Guadalcanal...
...valiant taxi-driver (Gene Kelly) who rushes at the priest's killers with his bare fists, takes everything his torturers can give him in solitary confinement-and utterly loses his courage. The Spaniard (Joseph Calleia), the only prisoner who is politically as sophisticated as the Nazis, is cold-blooded in his preference that the broken taxi-driver should die rather than return to infect his comrades with despair. The young bourgeois lawyer (Jean Pierre Aumont) is horrified when his fellows plot to kill the wine-merchant without a trial, yet he succeeds him as a trusty. He manages...
...Advance. The dead were avenged. At the height of the German threat, warships, including two British battleships (Warspite, Valiant), shelled the Nazi positions. Allied air forces threw many hundreds of planes at the same positions, flew 2,000 sorties in one day. At the extreme crisis, artillerymen under Lieut. Colonel Hal Muldrow, one of the many Oklahomans, were the only forces facing German tanks and infantrymen. Muldrow stripped his gun crews, gave them rifles and machine guns. The German spearhead was stopped, enveloped, thrown back. Near the northern end of the bridgehead the British stopped a German advance, seized...
Remember the valiant 1st Platoon softball team that singed the grass of Soldiers Field with such scintillation all summer? Sad to relate, it's practically non-existent now. No less than 5 members of that intrepid crew got axed by the academic department, which, with an eye to niceties, neatly amputated the battery and outfield. Feeling that it would look silly with just the infield out there, the team has broken up and is now in the process of becoming stronger and stronger as its exploits pass from one tongue to another. A month from now you'll hear about...
...likely to salvage the picture was also the best artist in the company, and the most simply attentive to an artist's job. Whoever else may have fumbled at the rope or muffled the clapper, the 27-year-old Swedish actress, Ingrid Bergman, hit the Bell such a valiant and far-sounding clang that there had been nothing like it since her great compatriot Greta Garbo enchanted half the world...