Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...buying Chrysler products. Sales of the slab-sided big Chrysler have increased by 69% this year, and Plymouth, boosted by the sleek, lengthened Fury, has gained 47%-the two greatest increases in the industry. Dodge sales are up 19%. The racy, fastback Barracuda, carved out of the compact Valiant as a quick and inexpensive answer to Ford's Mustang, has more than compensated for a decline in Valiant sales...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, 68, dashing British war hero and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier, who in World War II organized the crack Red Devils paratroop division, then led them in their valiant but disastrous attempt to seize and hold the Arnhem bridgehead in 1944, after the war served as the royal household's controller and treasurer until his retirement in 1959; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England...
...newspapers covered the riot more fully than any other Russian story in a long time. Eyewitness reports described how the Soviet cops battered the students "with their fists and truncheons" so that "many were injured, quite a few of them seriously." Naturally, the heroes of the day were the valiant Chinese undergraduates. It was just the chance that students back home in Red China had been waiting for. Marching over to Peking's Soviet embassy, several hundred massed in front of the building in silent protest at the manhandling of their colleagues in Moscow...
Spector, who is 5 ft. 7 in. and weighs 131 Ibs., personifies the bizarre, make-believe world that he dominates. "I've always wanted to stay in the background," he insists, primping his scraggly, Prince Valiant locks. But his attire could hardly be called a camouflage. Standard costume: stiletto-pointed boots with three-inch Cuban heels, tight pants, cloth cap, Davy Crockett pullover. He ignores the rude hoots that greet his progress down the street, confides that "in case of real trouble I could literally kill a guy. I've studied karate for years...
...affectionate crowds that hung outside his house when he turned 90 in November, there was still an impish twinkle in his eyes, a pugnacious thrust to the jaw, a dash of the old defiance as he raised his hand in the familiar V sign. It was a valiant effort, for Churchill had grown ever weaker and more withdrawn in recent years. Denied his old pastimes of painting, bricklaying and racing a famous stable, he still found pleasure in food, drink and a meager ration of cigars, in feeding the black swans at Chartwell, his country manor, or reliving old wars...