Word: valiante
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...August 1, 1944, the Polish Underground resistance started fighting the Nazis on the streets of Warsaw. The city erupted in a valiant rebellion. But the rocks and slings of these modern-day Davids were no match for the armor of the German Goliath. The Soviet Red Army, parked only 10 miles from Warsaw, coldly watched thousands of Poles being slaughtered. The Western democracies were outraged and this became one of the prime pieces of evidence on the side of those who believed that the Soviets could not be trusted in the post-war world...
That PUCC failed in the first step of its effort to reform the Council doesn't surprise us. We have seen many martyrs make valiant attempts to rejuvenate the glorified dance committee. It was how soon the liberal reformers crashed that is so shocking. One PUCC organizer who was elected, Tobias B. Kasper '97, even acknowledged in an interview on Sunday that PUCC largely failed to significantly increase voter turnout...
...down to 0 degrees could be labeled and sold as "fresh." In 1988 Perdue complained, and some courageous USDA bureaucrats tried to right matters. From then on, they proposed, only chickens whose internal temperature had never fallen below 26 degrees could be sold as fresh. It was a valiant effort -- and it died quickly. The National Broiler Council, the poultry-industry trade association dominated by Tyson Foods, "raised all kinds of hell," recalls Lester Crawford, who ran the federal food-safety service at the time. "Given their political muscle, we reverted to the idiotic, unsupportable zero-degree rule almost instantly...
When Harvard students engage in their favorite pastime of Yale bashing, they never lack ammunition. And while the Elis make valiant but futile attempts to defend their alma mater, one thing even they acknowledge is that Harvard is safer than its younger, poorer sister...
...Another valiant effort by Meringoff propelled the Crimson to a shutout...