Word: valor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...explorer, built ships and sailed from the mouth of the Indus across the Arabian Sea and up to the head of the Persian Gulf. He and his crew reported to their commander in chief Alexander the Great in Iran, after a two-year voyage of tremendous hardship and valor. Could be ... a case of long-distance heredity...
...Fall of Valor. In Jacksonville, county officials welcomed Harley Knight, 37, after he drove all the way from Durham, N.C. to answer a stolen-car charge, then learned that he had stolen another auto to make the trip...
...Valor & Cowardice. Angelo continues his ride to Italy convinced that the conduct of the intrepid doctor is the best answer to this question. For everywhere he goes, most men & women are responding to the threat of death with be havior that is a degradation of the hu man spirit. The rich are fleeing the plague in expensive carriages, bribing quarantine officials to let them through. The middle class are incapable of fleeing because they are weighed down by stuffed furniture and bric-a-brac. The poor are working themselves into a state of hysteria by spreading and believing bloodcurdling...
...Innerfield, trypsin can be the answer to a doctor's prayer. As a therapeutic agent, it effectively speeds up the body's host reaction to injuries. Moving in the blood stream to an area of inflammation, trypsin can stimulate the white corpuscles there to prodigious feats of valor against invading organisms...
...which a white man and a brown man, held together by a light nylon rope, climbed the highest mountain. In this feat of the New Zealand beekeeper, Edmund Hillary, and the sinewy Sherpa tribesman, Tenzing, millions down in the mundane valleys felt a vicarious exhilaration-the reminder that by valor and dedication man may surmount his Everests...