Word: valiantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Both the men and women duellists from South Bend proved that yesterday at the IAB, as they turned back valiant efforts from both Harvard squads, handing the men a 16-11 loss and stabbing the Crimson women...
...Warriors against the forces of evil every weekday on 166 television stations. In each half-hour segment, He-Man starts out as a mere wimp of a kid named Adam. When he raises his sword and utters the magic incantation, Adam turns into a hero who looks like Prince Valiant with Arnold Schwarzenegger's physique. Since the animated cartoon premiered 15 months ago, it has gained 9 million viewers, most of them boys ages four to seven...
...production, with its breathtaking subway set by Douglas Stein, appears more than anything else a valiant attempt to instill some life into what is essentially a theatrical museum piece. Director JoAnna Akalaitis has remained dutifully faithful to the script--down to Beckett's own mention of the Ritz cracker--even when the dialogue becomes an awkward partner to the massive visual impact of the subterranean set and Hamm and Clov garbed respectively as a Rastafarian and a grown-up street urchin...
...possibility existed, though, that these apathetic Democrats--and even some who voted for Reagan in 1980--would support Mondale if he only appeared a valiant campaigner, a champion of the common man, of the decent man, of civil rights, or trivial pursuits. It didn't matter which--just for him be the champion of something...
...boat mounted a valiant last-minute charge but was unable to catch gold medalist Canada which won by a mere 0.42 seconds...