Word: valor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valor, suffering and death of Commander Davis on Jan. 6, 1945, three days before the troop landings at Lingayen Gulf, Luzon, were to be duplicated by scores of other Navy officers and men in the seven-month liberation of the Philippines. With the backbone of its naval power snapped in the historic Battle of Leyte Gulf (TIME, Nov. 10, 1958), the Japanese turned full power on their last desperate tactic, the suicidal kamikaze corps. If books had theme songs, the kamikaze Song of the Warrior might serve as an apt motif for this 13th volume of Samuel Eliot Morison...
...troopers as the main rebel army moved into Havana last week were handfuls of gun-toting girls. They were the women of the revolution, who rarely fired rifles but in day-to-day operations kept the hidden rebellion alive. Fidel Castro had a word of grateful praise for "the valor of the Cuban women in the waiting and praying and smuggling of guns, ammunition and messages...
...prove that he is a man of action. The President acted like the Communist caricature of the Yankee imperialist. As for Nixon, he has greatly diminished sympathy for his behavior by a vulgar attempt to convert this dismal tour into a presidential campaign trip. He had established his valor in Peru; his insistence on a repeat performance in Venezuela indicates that he was utterly seduced by his press notices, and incapable of recognizing his own limitations...
...Insides to have written one good short story," is still writing bad ones. He has published four uncelebrated novels. His longest-remembered work, nonetheless, is less likely to be one of the Insides than a short (261 pages) book called Death Be Not Proud-a tender, harrowing vignette of valor and suffering...
...would happen, asks Lewis, if space travelers from earth discover an unfallen race? "At first, to be sure, they'd have a grand time jeering at, duping and exploiting its innocence; but I doubt if our half-animal cunning would long be a match for godlike wisdom, selfless valor and perfect unanimity." Still, "against them we shall, if we can, commit all the crimes we have already committed against creatures certainly human but differing from us in features and pigmentation; and the starry heavens will become an object . . . of intolerable guilt." Earth missionaries might try to force on "creatures...