Word: valiant
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...best of all from Detroit's point of view, they preferred to buy big. The auto companies responded by producing more V-8-powered, full-size cars, the industry's real moneymakers, and by making its successful compacts, such as the Ford Falcon and the Plymouth Valiant, longer and heavier...
...though, the news is often so predictable or so trivial that the smaller news organizations are not terribly aggrieved. Says Don Hewitt, a floor producer for CBS: "Ninety percent of it is hot air, and 10% is news." If that. Perhaps the most valiant effort to make it all sound absorbing was made by CBS Correspondent Harry Reasoner, who observed at the end of a particularly dreary night: "After a while, the fact that you have no surprises gets rather dramatic...
Last week the VA canceled the project. Said a chastened Noll: "Certainly we meant no disrespect for these valiant Civil War heroes...
This play is a tone poem, and it is surely Robin Phillips at the top form of his directorial career who has elicited from Maggie Smith this confluence of naked emotions. She is, from moment to moment, grieving, loving, bitter, wasp-witted, rapturous, valiant and a wombful of fear. Her most powerfully affecting sequence is the descent into madness, where terrifying apparitions of unreason flit like vampire bats through the buckling rafters of her brain...
...highlight of a less-than-shining season came at the very end when the Crimson upset a heavily favored Boston University team, 5-3, to work its way into the finals of the second annual Women's Beanpot tournament. The icewomen's valiant fight against nationally-ranked Northeastern University and its second-place finish overshadowed a final 7-1 loss...