Word: valiantly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this time. A blaze that broke out three weeks ago continues to rage and is the worst conflagration ever faced by the Communist government. The inferno has already killed more than 200 people and seriously injured an additional 221. Despite the valiant efforts of approximately 40,000 soldiers and thousands of civilians, the walls of flame have razed whole villages, scorched nearly 1.5 million of the Daxing'anling forest's 20 million acres and left at least 51,000 people homeless...
...happen to have funny things to say about dating or television or life in New York City. The new gang appear onstage as determined misfits -- sometimes menacing, sometimes pathetic, always glaringly out of place. One of the quirkiest is Emo Philips, 31, a waiflike creature with a Prince Valiant haircut who floats onto the stage like some fugitive from Mother Goose and talks in a limp, languorous singsong. The star of a recent HBO concert, he shows a fondness for whimsical absurdities ("I'm not as good a swimmer as I used to be -- thanks to evolution"), but his material...
Combine Duke's skill, Harvard's determination and my diminished eyesight, and you've got the perfect ballgame. The sleek and the valiant stood out, while the errant passes and air-balled hook shots could be overlooked mercifully...
WORKING SPACE stands as a valiant attempt by Stella to drag abstract painting back on the road of progress. But it's just one more intellectual breakdance in a field overrun by rhetorical jivin' and poppin'. After all, abstract painting is a mental art. Since abstraction is the mental process of selection and exaggeration, abstract art requires the intellectual equivalent of a Captain Video decoder ring to translate a picture into ordinary concepts...
...popular memory, the press brought down Richard Nixon. This isn't true, though the press in a moment of hubris once thought so and later paid for its arrogance in public disapproval. In Watergate's early days the story was kept alive mainly by the valiant reporting of the Washington Post. But Nixon was finally toppled by two institutions more powerful than the press -- Judge John Sirica's federal court and Senator Sam Ervin's Senate committee...