Word: valiants
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...talk, brother to brother, to none other than Janos Kadar, No. 1 stooge of the Soviet puppet regime in Hungary. He had small hopes of shoring up younger brother Janos' spine, but other Hungarian-Canadians had besought Mike Kadar to try to intercede in behalf of their valiant relatives still writhing under Russian guns in Hungary (see FOREIGN NEWS). After a futile 24-hour vigil near the telephone, Mike Kadar gave up and journeyed home to write a pleading letter to Janos. The harsh odds, however, were that Mike had already got his answer ten years ago. At that...
Lutheran Bishop Lajos Ordass (rhymes with war-dash) is a tough and gallant churchman. He was a valiant center of Hungary's anti-Nazi resistance during the occupation; in 1945 he was made Bishop of Budapest. The Communists found him no easier to handle than the Nazis had; he stubbornly resisted the nationalization of church schools. In 1948 the Communists arrested him on trumped-up charges of currency-law violation and sentenced him to two years in prison. Yielding to Communist pressure, the Hungarian Lutheran Church court deposed him as bishop. After his release in 1950, he retired...
...wonder if the American voter will not say on Nov. 7: "As [Kefauver] loved me, I weep for him; as he was fortunate, I rejoice at it; as he was valiant, I honour him; but as he was ambitious, I slew...
Actually, it probably is about time for University Hall to put a permanent filter on the Smoker. What with female entertainers who cringe rather than entice, with firecrackers that go off in all the wrong places, and with Al Capp fighting a valiant annual battle against increasingly overwhelming odds, perhaps the thing really was getting to be "a menace to the well-being of Harvard...
...fourth Cambridge Review continues its valiant search for a point of view. Having fearlessly maintained for three issues that a point of view was necessary, the editors now conclude that it is not only necessary but possible...