Word: valor
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...their valor did not go unrecorded. A German film company preparing a documentary on Harvard for the das deutsche Fernsehen shot hundreds of feet of the folksing, complete with soundtrack. The cameraman did not explain how they had gotten word of the protest. "Just passing by," he said...
...negotiated-and guided through the General Assembly-the plan that established the State of Israel (thereby earning Israel's Medallion of Valor). By now, Pearson had won such fame as a civil servant that the courtly St. Laurent, succeeding aging Mackenzie King as Prime Minister in 1948, brought him into his Cabinet as External Affairs Secretary-and into Parliament as a reluctant politician. Asked on the day he joined the Cabinet when he had become a Liberal, Pear son grinned: "Today...
...soldiers commonly rescue their wounded and dead from exposed positions, often in defiance of orders. But in Berlin a different valor is called for: the courage to obey orders because they are right. When on each soldier's act hangs awesome consequences, he has no right of initiative...
...used-car salesman, Actor Stephens plays to panting perfection the sort of sly young fox who figures that if he chases the chickens hard enough he may get a goose. In the homosexual, Actor Melvin finds valor, humor, ethos, pathos, and a touching reminder that men who become women sometimes become good women. With the mother, Actress Bryan accomplishes a masterpiece of caricature. Voice like a firebell, hair like fried sash-cord, face notched with conquests like a sheriff's six gun, she is the wiggling, giggling, jiggling image of the beery...
Every so often a nation produces a genuine hero, raised above the multitude by acts of valor or virtue in times of war, crisis or national frustration. He may come from any walk of life, so long as he fills the nation's need to elevate its vision and swell its pride. From Washington to Sergeant York, from Lindbergh to MacArthur, the U.S. has had its share of heroes. But few have encountered the universal approval and adulation that last week engulfed Astronaut John Glenn...