Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...testimony, eloquent in every Russian, that thought and belief in the mother country were still worth having and keeping whole in the hearts of the nation's valiant soldiers...
...Russians read the first copies of a new paper, British Ally, published by Britain and noted its quotation from Churchill's valiant speech of June 22, 1941: "The cause of any Russian fighting for his hearth and home is the cause of free men and free people ... in every quarter of the globe." The Russians were not impressed...
Between Germany and domination of the great Eurasian land mass, the Red army still stood. But the valiant Russians were yielding step by step the greater part of their European soil. They were falling back ever closer to Asia. Each backward step brought the United Nations closer to facing the awful question: What if Russia fell? Whatever the probabilities, that dire possibility had to be faced. How would Russia's defeat tip the scales toward the Axis? How many men, how much oil, how many planes, what raw materials would be left to fight the Battle of the World...
Through the eyes of its own and German reconnaissance pilots, the Italian High Command looked around the edges of the Mediterranean and made a startling claim: Rome radio said that the Queen Elizabeth and Valiant, 30,600-ton battleships of the Queen Elizabeth class, had been seriously damaged by the Italian Navy. More than that, said Rome, the Valiant was still in dry dock after six months of repairs and the Queen Elizabeth "will require some time before repairs are completed." Knowing that the Italians were fishing for news, Britain kept...
...look at the fighting in Europe we may feel encouraged by the valiant and zestful manner in which the Russians have begun their spring offensive. . . . It would be prudent, however, and in accordance with Stalin's own judgment to take a more restrained view...