Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third class, is the reward. But in a people's army, officers may not bestow a decoration on a man unless his comrades in battle agree that he deserves it. More often, a good soldier is simply commended publicly, and perhaps given a title?"Determined to Win Soldier" or "Valiant Killer of Americans...
...first time, Peking has publicly praised the Philippine Communist Party and lauded the rebellious Huks as valiant and correct revolutionary fighters. In Indonesia, China is trying to reorganize the decimated Indonesian Communist Party (P.K.I.), utilizing what is left of the Chinese population after last year's massacre. It has long aided the guerrillas in Thailand's northeast, recently drew neutralist Prince Sihanouk's ire for attempting the same thing in Cambodia. And the Chinese have continued, of course, to supply the Pathet Lao guerrillas of Laos with arms, aid and propaganda backing...
...list of motor-vehicle owners, complete with addresses, to the highest bidder. New York vehicle owners are thereupon inundated with predictable bales of junk mail, sales-pitch telephone calls, and even personal visits by hawkers of various products. The situation became so intolerable to Old Leftist Author and 1967 Valiant Owner Corliss Lament that he sued to prevent the state from selling his name. In the warming winds of judicial concern over invasion of privacy, Lament thought his chances good...
...elongated, now welds many bumpers together in solid, chunky shapes instead of letting them stick out like the spines of a giant cactus. His forms have also been influenced by the style of the bumpers available at the Long Island car-parts supply house, where he buys them. Prince Valiant, so called because of its similarity to a Viking's shield, utilizes the rococo protuberances found on 1958 Oldsmobiles, of a type sometimes known in the auto industry as "Dagmars" (for the well-rounded TV comedienne of the 1950s), but the more streamlined and recent Arabesque is based...
...cars this year, recapture at least 10% of the compact market it once dominated. His main ammunition: price cuts of from $154 to $234. The $2,073 two-door Rambler sedan will now go for $1,839, which is well under its closest U.S. competitor, the $2,117 Chrysler Valiant, and only $200 more than the Volkswagen...