Word: valor
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Facing 40,000 roaring youths at a Caracas stadium last week, Pope John Paul II asked, "Will Venezuela's youth have the valor to be true Christians?" The crowd shouted, "Si." "And will they have the valor to construct a more just society?" Again a thundering "Si." "More fraternal and more peaceful?" Once more a booming affirmation...
...pegs, he suggests, began in school with tales of bold Westerners challenging sinister enchanters in the East. The heroes of antiquity, the knights-errant and the pathfinders of empire, symbolized virtues that quickened young hearts. But mercantile Britain offered few opportunities for a romantic. "Where was the use of valor and a knowledge of Xenophon and all the rest of the accoutrements?" Glazebrook inquires. "He had put on knight's armor to play croquet...
...Sikhs cleaved to Gobind's martial principles, the tales of their valor and ferocity became legion. They routed the Afghans at the Battle of Attock in 1813, and in 1849 they delivered a stinging defeat to the British at the Battle of Chillianwala. After they were forced to succumb to superior British firepower six weeks later, the Sikhs became among the sturdiest and trustiest men of the British army: during the great Indian Mutiny of 1857, the raj was kept alive by their support. After the British slaughtered nearly 400 civilians, many of them Sikhs, at Amritsar...
...with the idea that the Germans were not solely responsible for the first World War, a revolutionary thought that we digested with a certain amount of skepticism. Our bible was the Testament of Youth by Vera Brittain, which we read with a sense of the author's courage and valor that we all longed to emulate. It fitted in well with our firm conviction that there must never be another world war and that, of course, there never would be. The world simply could not afford it. So deeply was this concept in stilled in us that in spite...
...acts of heroism to pull off a project about as difficult as invading Martha's Vine-yard. The implications for national security are profound and troubling indeed when 7000 tough guys with helicopters and machine guns--and no nagging world press at their heels--needed thousands of acts of valor to defeat a motley crew of Cuban "construction workers" and Third World revolutionaries...