Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soshs" (pronounced so-shhs). Greasers knead their locks with greasy kid stuff, then comb it back into long waves that lap against their collars. Surfers achieve a wind-blown effect by constant washing-sometimes every day. They either let their locks dangle just above their eyebrows, a la Prince Valiant, or sweep them back over one side of the forehead into the "frat" look. Because the resulting bang usually slips down to cover one eye, many fraters develop a tic from jerking their heads back to clear their vision...
Died. Michael Charles Boyer, 21, only son of Actor Charles Boyer, promotion director for his father's Valiant Record Company; by his own hand (.38-cal. pistol), in a game of Russian roulette after his fiancée broke off their engagement; in West Los Angeles...
...many standard-sized cars were a decade ago. Detroit has junked the economy image because it failed in model year '65. Despite record sales of 8,800,000 cars, there were drop-offs in Ford's Falcon and Fairlane, G.M.'s Chevy II, Chrysler's Valiant and American Motors' Rambler...
Continued Johnson: "We are in Viet Nam to fulfill one of the most solemn pledges of the American nation. Three Presidents-President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and your present President-over eleven years have committed themselves and have promised to help defend this small and valiant nation. Strengthened by that promise, the people of South Viet Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. And we just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted...
...actors didn't have a great deal of substance to work with. There's limit to how many different ways you can vent your frustrations with life on "the rain." But I think that more understanding of the play, and less of an effort to assist Brecht in his valiant effort to make sure nobody in the audience missed the impact of what he was trying to say might have helped...