Word: valiantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fragile limbo of a mind that has broken its moorings. She regards the confiscation of her personal diaries in a police raid as a spiritual rape, and has precariously survived mental therapy. Piet and Gladys nostalgically anticipate the visit of Steve Daniels (James Earl Jones), one of the valiant veterans of the antiapartheid causer as a healing family reunion. But it turns out to be a conflagration of doubt, rage, lost love, recrimination and remorse...
...break that broke the Crimson's collective back came on the opening play of the second half, when Mike Ernst and Scott McCabe (not Paul Scheper as reported earlier) collided on a kickoff return. The Elis recovered the fumble at the Crimson 25-yd. line, and a valiant Harvard defensive effort clamped down for seven plays until Yale captain John Nitti cracked over from the six-inch line on fourth-and-goal...
...years he has been the most stalwart member of Congress to believe fervently that Ronald Reagan should be President. In 1976 he ran the Californian's valiant but losing attempt to win the nomination from Gerald Ford. This year he again chaired Reagan's presidential campaign committee and again nominated him for President. Now he is getting his reward by being allowed to put into effect a unique plan he has been urging on Reagan for 18 months. Although he holds no formal position of leadership among Republicans, Nevada's Paul Laxalt, 58, has suddenly become...
...best of all from Detroit's point of view, they preferred to buy big. The auto companies responded by producing more V-8-powered, full-size cars, the industry's real moneymakers, and by making its successful compacts, such as the Ford Falcon and the Plymouth Valiant, longer and heavier...
...though, the news is often so predictable or so trivial that the smaller news organizations are not terribly aggrieved. Says Don Hewitt, a floor producer for CBS: "Ninety percent of it is hot air, and 10% is news." If that. Perhaps the most valiant effort to make it all sound absorbing was made by CBS Correspondent Harry Reasoner, who observed at the end of a particularly dreary night: "After a while, the fact that you have no surprises gets rather dramatic...