Word: valiante
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complished so quickly. There was little surprise when Prime Minister Gandhi announced to both houses of Parliament early last week that India would become the first government to recognize Bangladesh. Still, members thumped their desks, cheered loudly and jumped in the aisles to express their delight. "The valiant struggle of the people of Bangladesh in the face of tremendous odds has opened a new chapter of heroism in the history of freedom movements," Mrs. Gandhi said. "The whole world is now aware that [Bangladesh] reflects the will of an overwhelming majority of the people, which not many governments can claim...
...that the playgoer is raptly involved. What Sticks and Bones lacks is size and scope. Rabe is good enough so that he ought to ponder what makes a dramatist an enduring force rather than simply a Geiger counter of his times. The Greeks and the Elizabethans, who deemed men valiant heroes as great as their doom, produced awesome drama. It is the current American fashion to see men as brain-bleached automatons, and our drama has shrunk to precisely those mean, narrow and dispiriting dimensions...
Take for instance the highlight of the evening's card, the steel cage match between Jimmy Valiant and Pedro Morales. Pedro is a good wrestler, and the fans love him. But Valiant let him walk away with the match. (In case there are some of you who aren't afficianados of the sport, a steel cage match consists of locking two wrestlers into a steel cage and awarding the bout to the one who gets out firs.) Pedro gave Valiant a good solid kick, and Valiant just lay there and let Pedro escape from the cage. He wasn't even...
...city's far, far away, over the mountains," the magician told him. "I was 15 when it was totaled. They was droppin' dead in the streets for years." "Take me to the city," Glen said. But the magician had other business, so just like Prince Valiant on a quest for the Holy Grail, Glen set out for the city...
Harvard's least exciting sports event is over for yet another term. A few valiant swimmers and a lot of people who didn't even know they were participating in a race swam in the Radcliffe Spring Marathon last week...