Word: valiant
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...drop opened frightening prospects. As Blumenthal stated on TV last week, an endless fall in the dollar's value would destroy any chance that Stage II could succeed; the rise in import prices would overwhelm the most valiant struggles that companies and unions
...Ivan Day-Jones sold out all his paintings of scenes of the brutal racial warfare that has savaged Rhodesia in the past decade. The boom is so great that a number of rare items have been stolen from Salisbury's Queen Victoria Memorial Library. One current bestseller: The Valiant Years, a collection of newspaper stories and headlines from 1890 to the present...
...Nobel Committee has learned, its prize is less often the reward for "successful efforts at peace than it is - as it was with Von Ossietzky - for a valiant try. In their continuing maneuvers toward Middle Eastern peace, Sadat and Begin might well ponder the case histories of some of their fellow laureates: Aristide Briand and Gustav Stresemann, the French and German statesmen who won the 1926 prize for the ill-fated Locarno peace trea ties, in which Belgium, France and Germany agreed never to fight again; American Diplomat Frank Kellogg, who was the originator of the Utopian Kellogg-Briand Pact...
...past year Premier Jamshid Amuzegar had made a valiant effort to restore the country's economy. He cut inflation from 31% to 8%, cracked down on wealthy tax dodgers, purged the civil service of crooks and incompetents. But the reforms came far too late, and the rioting only grew worse. Early last week the Shah replaced Amuzegar with Jaafar Sharif-Emami, 67, a former Premier who is himself known as a devout Muslim. The Shah's charge to his new Premier: mollify the mullahs...
Some of those 29 million people who have given up cigarettes clutched momentarily at the hint that smoking might be safe after all and their valiant struggle was unnecessary. The Tobacco Institute, lobby for the industry, declared, "We could not have written it [Carter's statement] better than that." And almost as if on cue, Gio Batta Gori, a high official of the Government-financed National Cancer Institute, announced a short-term study showing that some of the new cigarettes were so low in toxins that they could be smoked in "tolerable" numbers without appreciable bad effects on average...