Word: valor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...club's honored guest. Like a Big Ten cheer leader, Percy waved flash cards bearing each letter of Dirksen's full name. " 'E' is for Effectiveness," he began, and proceeded to expatiate on how effective Ev is. Then: " 'V is for Valor." By the time he got through all 22 cards to the final "N," the audience was howling that the game had gone on much too long. "This is the worst I've ever seen a public official treated," winced one guest. The next speaker might have faced sudden death...
...three months: "Your reporters followed me everywhere. Once I tried to hide in a motel, but they found me." And Architect William Pereira likened his interview to an initiation rite: "You approach it with apprehension and endure it with what you hope is a convincing show of manly valor...
...more valor than luck that kept the Oriskany from going to the bottom of the Gulf of Tonkin. "There were just too many acts of heroism to count," said Skipper John Iarrobino. "There were literally hundreds. If there hadn't been, God only knows what the toll and the damage might have been." Almost everyone aboard performed with distinction, but the kids, the teen-aged sailors of the Oriskany, got particular acclaim for keeping her afloat. Said one seasoned chief: "Those crazy rock-'n'-roll jitterbuggers, they saved this ship today. Getting into that fire and pushing...
...rest of his surrendering battalion. He was left behind because, in terror, he had hidden in a closet. An enemy soldier consents to take him prisoner, but then steals his spectacles, thus further cutting him off from the world, and forgets him. Here cowardice becomes the better part of valor. The hero takes refuge in an abandoned greenhouse near the headquarters of an enemy regiment. He sits in plain sight of the enemy soldiers on the sound theory that he cannot be convicted of trying to escape. He is right. He is ignored in his transparent house. The enemy cannot...
...from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count of any operation in the war. As Operation Irving progressed, some 320 surrendering Viet Cong stumbled into the grasp of the Aircav alone...