Word: valiants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...have made a name in music as composers, fewer still as operatic composers. The only authoressed opera ever produced at the Metropolitan Opera House, Englishwoman Ethel Smyth's Der Wald, fizzled after two performances in 1903. But last week a onetime Metropolitan contralto-turned-composer was making a valiant...
...reflect upon an enormous retrogression in individual liberty and a denial of all human rights behind an impenetrable Iron Curtain in the satellite states where love-either of God or of man-is proscribed . . . It is for us, in these days of doubt and despair, to bear true and valiant -witness to the faith of our fathers-the faith delivered to the saints and transmitted to us through long generations of Christian forebears...
Guiding Hand. The South Korean army made a valiant effort to overcome its initial confusion. Within 24 hours after the invasion's start, the Southerners had succeeded in halting temporarily the most dangerous Northern drive, even managed to counterattack across the border and captured the Northern town of Haeju...
...listeners the world over; after long illness; in Strathaven (rhymes with raven), Scotland. Reared in poverty, the onetime mill boy and coal miner waggled his kilt and twirled his famous crooked stick to delight three generations. He acquired a fortune and (wrote Winston Churchill) "by his inspiring songs and valiant life . . . rendered measureless service to the Scottish race and to the British Empire...
...hard to be honest, manages in places to be effective, has a fierce moment or two, as when at the end Doc clings for help, like a drowning man, to the wife who has made him drown. And as Lola and Doc, Shirley Booth and Sidney Blackmer prove a valiant acting team, bring a great deal that is human, perceptive, vivid to their roles...