Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Early last week, apparently not satisfied that the valiant U.S. 2nd Division (TIME, May 28) was impregnable, the Chinese were still feeling it out with probing attacks, which were beaten off.Farther east, they attacked R.O.K. units and as usual forced them to give ground. Van Fleet sent the U.S. 3rd Division (which he had apparently held in reserve) to the aid of the ROKs, and the 3rd stopped the Reds in their tracks. Then the Communists began a retreat which by week's end seemed to be a rout...
...Company, representing the 1st Battalion of the Gloucesters (see cut). Said the citation: "By holding their positions and fighting fiercely above & beyond the call of duty, this magnificent battalion was surrounded and cut off by overwhelming Chinese forces. . . . Their epic stand will go down as one of the most valiant in modern times...
TOKYO, Feb. 16--An Allied tank column smashed through faltering Chinese Communist resistance yesterday and lifted a 42-hour siege of a valiant French-American regimental combat team on the central Korean front...
...retreating R.O.K. soldiers were the most miserable troops I ever saw. They had fought a valiant rearguard action for two days and two nights, but few of them would fight again for a long time to come...
...Filmed with U.S. Navy cooperation at San Diego and Point Mugu, Calif., the picture works up some passing interest in the missiles whooshing into space from the decks of aircraft carriers and submarines. These scenes are ruined by a broadside of plot cliches: Sub Commander Glenn Ford's valiant struggle against red tape to get his craft equipped with the new weapons; his romance with the admiral's secretary (Viveca Lindfors); his recovery, through sheer grit and amateur psychiatry, from an emotional trauma that paralyzes his legs...