Word: valiante
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...that snarled up the civil rights bill by specifying jury trials in criminal contempt cases. Acute unhappiness overtoned the crisp and unprecedented statement that a grim-jawed Dwight Eisenhower dictated to his press secretary. "My first reaction ... is to extend my sincere appreciation to ... those Senators who stood ... in valiant and persistent efforts to bring to all our citizens protection in their right to vote-a protection of which many are now deprived. Rarely in our entire legislative history have so many extraneous issues been initiated into the debate in order to confuse both legislators and the public...
Speed Replaces Depth. Though often short on facts, the U.P. historically has compensated with brighter writing; its crisp, concise style has forced the A.P. in recent years to valiant efforts to refurbish its often stodgy copy. Style has become increasingly important as the technical speedup in communications sytems has all but eliminated the old-fashioned beat. At the same time, speed has increasingly displaced depth or even accuracy, as writing and checking time dwindle. The A.P., with more manpower, is widely accepted by editors as more accurate than the U.P. Day by day the A.P. also files more interpretive background...
...lost much of the impact it might have had with the general public. On the other hand, the fund-supported Bibliography of the Communist Problem in the United States, compiled by Cornell Historian Clinton Rossiter, Georgetown Law Professor Joseph Snee, S.J. and Harvard Law Professor Arthur Sutherland, was a valiant if incomplete attempt to do a much-needed job. The investigation of security procedures and firings, made under the auspices of the New York City bar association, cast a frightening Orwellian light on the abuses committed in the name of security...
Beyond the facts released by the Air Ministry-that the bomb was dropped from a four-engined Vickers Valiant painted gleaming white-Macmillan would add only that "first indications are that the local fallout [of dangerous radioactive substances] was almost negligible...
...rickety for the big Potomac. And Kaiser Aluminum's musicomedy jape, A Man's Game, went a long way toward scotching the prevailing theory that baseball can be successfully dramatized. As a lady pitcher. Nanette Fabray tossed the ball as girls always do and gave a valiant imitation of a musicomedy actress behaving as if she were in a great show. She wasn...