Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American support is to aid the Europeans, it is not made to exempt them from their responsibilities . . . Whatever opinion one might have, for example, of the regime that governs Spain, this proud and valiant people . . . must be incorporated into the whole without waiting longer. Whatever may have been from century to century . . . it is a fact that Germany is at the heart of Europe and that the position on the Elbe demands the participation of the Germans...
Almost continuously for eleven hours, North Koreans attacked a ridge position held by a valiant Negro platoon led by Lieut. Harry Sutton of The Bronx, N.Y. Bayonet-wielding Reds reached Sutton's trenches and turned a U.S. machine gun on the Americans. But Sutton's men hung on, and finally, after receiving reinforcements, drove the enemy...
...usual, Wall Street had no precise explanation for the break, other than such old standbys as "profit taking, the Korean situation, fear of more taxes, etc." But the Wall Street Journal made a valiant try to find something new. The trouble was that business was too good. Reported the Journal: some traders said "the flood of good earnings and higher dividends had had a satiating effect and had certainly 'spread' the interest so widely through the list that there was not sufficient concentration of buying" behind any one stock. In short, there were so many good buys that...
...Assembly elected Iran's Ambassador to the U.S., Nasrollah Entezam, able, agile former Iranian Foreign Minister and onetime Grand Master of Ceremonies at the Shah's Imperial Palace. Said Entezam: "I am sure that I shall be able in your name to assure those young and valiant fighters [in Korea] that we shall do all within our power so that they may return home as soon as possible...
...bishops surrender after two years of valiant resistance? Because the alternative would have been complete liquidation of the church in Hungary. Last June the Communists showed that they would stop at nothing, when they raided Catholic monasteries and convents, imprisoned monks and nuns by the thousands. Soon afterwards the bishops started to negotiate. They had decided that a church with some liberties, however limited, was preferable to no church at all. The negotiations went forward slowly, and they were surrounded by elaborate propaganda designed to prepare for the ultimate decision. Early last month a conference of Hungary's Roman...