Word: valiante
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Continued Johnson: "We are in Viet Nam to fulfill one of the most solemn pledges of the American nation. Three Presidents-President Eisenhower, President Kennedy and your present President-over eleven years have committed themselves and have promised to help defend this small and valiant nation. Strengthened by that promise, the people of South Viet Nam have fought for many long years. Thousands of them have died. Thousands more have been crippled and scarred by war. And we just cannot now dishonor our word, or abandon our commitment, or leave those who believed us and who trusted...
...actors didn't have a great deal of substance to work with. There's limit to how many different ways you can vent your frustrations with life on "the rain." But I think that more understanding of the play, and less of an effort to assist Brecht in his valiant effort to make sure nobody in the audience missed the impact of what he was trying to say might have helped...
Number five man Richie Friedman, the one Harvard player who should have been hurt most by the hard courts, made a valiant comeback against sharp-serving Ed Serues, 4-6, 6-2, 6-1, to give Harvard a favorable 3-3 split in the singles...
Liked by Foreigners. One of the major problems facing Abernethy-whose biggest car, the Ambassador, is actually shorter than many intermediates-has been the decline of the compact market. This trend has cut Rambler sales by 14%, Valiant sales by 29% and Chevy II and Falcon sales each by 39% below their 1964 levels. In an attempt to counteract the slump, American will add luxury features to the 1966 Classic and Ambassador, avoid advertising them as compacts. The 1966 compact American will be given a sporty, sloping rear deck, and emphasized as American's sole compact...
...trick in writing a chronicle play is to use the historical events to show off the characters of the leading figures. But Culpepper never even deliniates his protagonist. We learn in the first scene that Arnold is suspicious and quick tempered, but also a valiant general. Later on we learn he has a tendency to live beyond his means. But we never see how or why his meaner characteristics overcome his nobler ones...