Word: valiants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...star of the show was the Vickers Valiant, a four-jet, swept-wing bomber, which British airmen are already calling "the aircraft of the year." It has more range, speed, altitude and load-carrying capacity than the Canberra, which holds the speed record over the Atlantic and is being mass-produced for the U.S. Air Force by Glenn L. Martin Co. in Baltimore...
...Tribesman was getting ready to sail this week. Her strange and valiant cargo: 63 men & women missionaries, with 20 children, bound for South America, to bring the Gospel to the wildest savages they could find...
...white mane with satisfaction. Said he to the House of Representatives last week: "This regulation is ... the first thing that has brought justice in freight rates to the people of the South and West in the last 50 years." Editorialized the Atlanta Journal: "It has been a long and valiant fight [which] has resulted in a triumph for justice and fair play...
...stage, members of the orchestra and cast (representing the U.S., England, Sweden, Austria, Switzerland and Australia) put on a first-rate show, glittering with classic fidelity to Mozart, plus modern ornamentations of ballet and striking scenic effects. Next day, critics echoed the audience's bravos for a valiant try. The Times found the opera "a worthy introduction after a wait of 170 years." Said the News Chronicle: "Unequal though it is ... a most moving experience...
...original dispensation was granted to Spanish counts in 1089 by Pope Urban II, in recognition of Spain's valiant services in the Crusades. It was later extended to all Spanish peoples by Pope Pius V after the victory of the Christian allies at the Battle of Lepanto...