Word: valor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Drang Valley in late 1965, when U.S. troops first engaged the Communists in a major battle and handed them a bloody defeat, there has been little doubt that American power would eventually tell. Fittingly, in a White House ceremony last week, Johnson awarded a Presidential Unit Citation for valor to Lieut. General Harry Kinnard in behalf of the 1st Cavalry Division (Airmobile) which he commanded in that hard-fought action...
...Jarrell at 51 was killed by a truck while walking on a highway near the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, where he had ?. lived and taught for many years. In a touching memoir, his widow recalls the "desperate valor" with which he faced the final nervous breakdown before his death. He was "granted a few magic weeks" in which "poems flew at him, short ones, quatrains, haiku, aphorisms, parts of speech, parts of poems, ideas for poems, until just words beat at his head like many wings...
...years, only 3,188 U.S. fighting men have qualified to wear the star-spangled blue silk neckband and bronze star of the nation's highest award for valor. And with each war the Med al of Honor becomes harder...
House to hear the President extol their leader's "towering valor." But the grizzled, close-cropped veteran of 17 years in the corps could only point to his platoon and mumble: "That's the guys who did it right there...
Twenty-three years ago, Charles Jackson wrote The Lost Weekend, a successful first novel about a problem drinker. He has been a problem novelist ever since. The Fall of Valor (1946) was about a homosexual, The Outer Edges (1948) about paranoiacs. This one is about a nymphomaniac, which ought to give it a somewhat more eclectic appeal than the previous two. Trouble is, A Second-Hand Life is more a case history than a novel. Winifred Grainger can't take her mind off sex or, specifically, the male sex organ. But all she does is talk about...