Word: valiantly
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...replied Hope calmly. "Shall I pull my pants up or just go on?" A minute and a half later, pants pulled up, the comedian-master of ceremonies walked onto the stage at Santa Monica's Civic Auditorium and, for the eleventh time in 13 years, did his valiant, 21-hour best to pull up that most intractable of TV shows, the annual "Oscar" awards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences...
...champion with nary a scar to show for it on his boyish face. Buck Rogers, the spaceman who confronted atom bombs as early as 1939, no longer plies the interplanetary routes. But Flash Gordon still zips through space at supersonic speed on the trail of highflying gangsters, while Prince Valiant moves at a snail's pace through meticulously drawn medieval sagas. And the whole idiom has been parodied by Li'I Abner, in which a collection of bulbous-nosed, ham-handed hillbillies makes monkeys out of assorted stuffed shirts-judges, politicians, business tycoons-who are unlucky enough...
...buying Chrysler products. Sales of the slab-sided big Chrysler have increased by 69% this year, and Plymouth, boosted by the sleek, lengthened Fury, has gained 47%-the two greatest increases in the industry. Dodge sales are up 19%. The racy, fastback Barracuda, carved out of the compact Valiant as a quick and inexpensive answer to Ford's Mustang, has more than compensated for a decline in Valiant sales...
Died. Lieut. General Sir Frederick A. M. Browning, 68, dashing British war hero and husband of Novelist Daphne du Maurier, who in World War II organized the crack Red Devils paratroop division, then led them in their valiant but disastrous attempt to seize and hold the Arnhem bridgehead in 1944, after the war served as the royal household's controller and treasurer until his retirement in 1959; of a heart attack; in Cornwall, England...
...newspapers covered the riot more fully than any other Russian story in a long time. Eyewitness reports described how the Soviet cops battered the students "with their fists and truncheons" so that "many were injured, quite a few of them seriously." Naturally, the heroes of the day were the valiant Chinese undergraduates. It was just the chance that students back home in Red China had been waiting for. Marching over to Peking's Soviet embassy, several hundred massed in front of the building in silent protest at the manhandling of their colleagues in Moscow...