Word: valor
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This new task will make different demands on those aspiring to the presidency. Just as leaders in times of military danger were expected to have shown some martial valor, a leader in a time of moral crisis must be on the high ground in that sphere, and in more than just his public life. The private lives of presidents have long since become an open book. The media will no longer cover for presidents in the interest of maintaining an idyllic image for the public...
THERE WAS ALWAYS IN HER A SENSE OF HISTORY AND THE SENSE THAT CHILDREN ARE watching -- children are watching and history will judge us, and the things that define our times are the great actions we take, all against the odds and with a private valor of which the world will little note nor long remember. But that's the big thing -- the personal struggle, and the sense that our history day by day is forged from it. That was her intuition, and that intuition was a gift to us, for it helped produce the walk down the broad avenues...
...biceps are often bigger than you head, an this seems to assist him in section, where his athletic virtue and valor translate into the opening comment. The Jockicus seems to triumph in section mostly because his formidable physique, for students of normal dimensions, constitutes enough of a justification for the statements he makes...
...extricate the trapped Task Force Rangers and -- above all, the capture, beating and humiliation of helicopter pilot Michael Durant. One part of the story has gone largely unreported, however: the 15-hour pitched battle that took place around the wreckage of Wolcott's chopper, an extraordinary display of valor by 99 men under calamitous circumstances. TIME has been told that two of those men who gave their life to protect Durant -- Sergeant First Class Randall Shugart and Master Sergeant Gary Gordon -- have been recommended to receive the nation's highest award for valor, the Congressional Medal of Honor. In addition...
...untold story of valor amid the Delta Force debacle...