Word: valiante
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...tends to shout more lines than he growls, his walk is an authentic back street swagger. One of his bosses is Congressman Al Gaiter (Robert Rosenberger), who is a bit rough for a slick politician, although he gives the impression of a man of graft. A sturdy Harvard valiant, Hobart, is portrayed by Thomas Russell, whose voice is enjoyably mellow and clear...
...might be expected of the two lowliest teams in the league, the game was rather poorly played for most of the contest. But with five minutes left in the game, and the Elis ahead, 73 to 63, the Crimson made a valiant attempt to tie the score which brought the large crowd to its feet...
...Swift & Valiant. Between wars, the company expanded still more by swallowing up Armstrong-Whitworth, one of Britain's leading manufacturers of engineering equipment, went into a whole line of heavy machine tools. For its heavy military business in the '30s, Vickers was tagged a "merchant of death." But in World War II, its fabled Spitfire (935,000 sorties by 1945) helped win the Battle of Britain, and its slab-sided Wellington bomber supplied the R.A.F.'s first counterpunch...
...cold war, spreading his bets over a variety of products in every division. Planes are no exception. In addition to its civilian Viscount, Vickers is also busy making its supersonic jet Supermarine Swift for the R.A.F., though bugs have slowed production. Its huge, four-jet Vickers Valiant is Britain's first long-range A-bomber to hit the production line. And to back up its short-range Viscount in the battle for airline supremacy, Vickers designers are at work on the Vickers 1,000, a huge swept-wing transport with four Rolls Royce Conway bypass engines, designed to carry...
...staggering 2,000,000 Indo-Chinese civilians were homeless. Ho's patient preparation was finally rewarded last spring, when the Communists struck characteristically on two fronts 5,000 miles apart: with Red China field guns and Russian rocket launchers, they crumbled the valiant French garrison at Dien-bienphu; with Chou En-lai and Molotov, they crumbled Western resolution at Geneva. One day last month, in one of the most extraordinary spectacles of Asia's long, unfolding panorama, French tanks withdrew from Hanoi before Viet Minh infantrymen wearing sneakers...