Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...interview with Paris-Match. Though his bride eschewed Max Factor for a coating of pig fat and soot, reports Obakharok, it seems the chief came down with a case of marital blahs on his wedding night. Even the prayers of his villagers ("Make our beloved chief, so valiant by habit, draw his bow for his new wife"), failed to work. Worse yet, concludes Obakharok, the island police arrived a few days after his marriage to expel Sargent from New Guinea, leaving the chief with only seven native wives, six children-and no dowry...
...about 8:30 p.m., the Senator and the others had taken the ferry from Edgartown to Chappaquiddick and driven three miles in an Oldsmobile or a rented 1968 white Valiant to a small cottage for an evening cookout. Between 11:15 and 11:30 p.m., Kennedy told Crimmins-but no one else-that he was tired and was returning to his room at the Shiretown Inn in Edgartown. Mary Jo left too, telling the Senator that she wanted to be driven back to her motel, some two miles from the Shiretown. But Mary Jo told none of the others...
...Valiant, he drove back to the bridge with Gargan and Markham, who tried vainly to save Mary Jo. After driving to the ferry landing, Kennedy dove into the channel and swam the 500 feet to Edgartown. He walked to his motel, changed into dry clothes and collapsed on his bed. At 2:25 a.m. he spoke to Innkeeper Russell Peachey about the noise from a party near by. For reasons never fully explained, Kennedy told no one of the accident. The next morning he heard that his car had been discovered in Poucha Pond. Only then, ten hours after...
GOLO MANN, West German historian: Marcus Aurelius, emperor and philosopher, valiant pessimist and warm philanthropist, was good for his own age. In our time, vacillating between two very different types, Franklin Roosevelt and Konrad Adenauer, I choose the former because his achievements had greater significance for world history. His demagoguery was tempered by humanity; he could not hate. He was fearless and had humor, two virtues that Bismarck, too, possessed; he radiated hope and meant well by people, which Bismarck...
...Radcliffe lacrosse team put up a valiant effort, but it all went for naught, as Radcliffe lost a heartbreaker to North-eastern yesterday, 6-5, on a muddy Soldiers Field...