Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...student deserve a larger share of the pie than students in other schools. Furthermore, all income from the endowment has been spent on operating costs, and there is no money available for aid to graduate students. * Given that we all must tighten our belts, the Kraus plan is a valiant effort at compromise between the two extremes of opinion about aid to graduate education--those who call for totally merit-based funding and those who advocate a strict set of need criteria. We will not relinquish our merit scholarships; they are essential to the quality of graduate education...
...runs three miles a day, and works out six times a week-"to show the Vietnamese that not all Americans are out of shape." Adds Rowley: "I don't want to look like the fat, sloppy, stupid Americans coming over here now." Running his hand through his Prince Valiant-styled hair, he puts down the new arrivals: "The only difference between the carpetbaggers of the post-Civil War period and now is that we are organized and sponsored by the American taxpayers' money...
...troops, Thieu appeared near the U.S. headquarters to lay the cornerstone for a memorial to the 46,000 Americans killed in the war. "Many times in this century the United States has sent her sons across the oceans to help oppose aggression," Thieu said, "but nowhere was their valiant participation so long and so trying as in Viet Nam. The Vietnamese people will never forget...
...attitude of the young. She pleads instead with the elderly them selves to "turn their energies toward discovering their common oppression" and to revolt. Essentially, she seeks the same kind of consciousness raising that has propelled the Women's Liberation movements. Yet her clean, unsentimental prose makes a valiant effort to ex pose, and perhaps modify those murderous attitudes toward the aged which, she claims, kill just as surely as do accidents and disease...
...wrote the musical, have done their best to make this prologue hang together and move--they supply frequent word-echoes to help tie the situation in Parliament to the scene at the Pankhursts's, and by introducing Alf and Charlie, two Stock music-hall types, they made a valiant effort to frame the musical interludes a la Cabaret and represent the expected male chauvinist point of view. But Alf and Charlie (John McNamara and James Dudley) never use their stereotype roles effectively: their voices and characterization are hesitant, and there is barely a hint of teamwork between them...