Word: valor
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...when it is finished. Belgium, Germany, and Italy suggested a 1959 conference in Europe with a preliminary meeting next year. For the week's discussion had demonstrated that capitalism has more to offer the world than cash. Its message: through technology, efficient management, research and the brand of valor that McGill University's Dr. David McCord Wright called the "energy to venture into uncertainty," competitive business can widen the distribution of goods, realize new sources of profit and do both in such fashion as to fortify free societies...
LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Sept. 25--Citizens of this border state capital proved today that racial segregation is not worth the price of active resistance. They demonstrated, at least, that when faced with the armed might of 400 federal troops, discretion is the better part of valor...
...there are four 0-words the people refuse to give up: hope. love, valor, and one other that remains not too mysteriously hidden until the final pages. The islanders rebel and, with the aid of beneficent magic, rout the pirates. Like his charming 1950 fable, The Thirteen Clocks, Thurber's new fairy story is written for a special breed of children and adults-those who like their anagrams and riddles sprinkled with poetic dust. Curiously, the author deprives Pirate Black of an argument that might have won the Ooroovians to his cause: even with the abolition...
...thousand years ago, Cato Major, musing on the problem of inhuman courage, said: "There is a difference between a man's prizing valor at a great rate, and valuing life at little." In their book, Coauthors Van Doren and Roske (a Civil War historian) are similarly bemused by Will Cushing's reckless bravery. They contrast it with the more measured courage of his brother Alonzo, a man who knew fear and hated war, yet died bravely at Gettysburg. Like many another hero, Will Cushing found it hard to adjust to peace. His final escapade in Cuba came close...
...term meant the Syrians (who dominated Israel from 198 B.C. to 141 B.C.) or the Romans (from 63 B.C. on). This one problem provides a perfect example of the kind of puzzle the scroll scholars are up against. The Kittim, according to the scrolls, are "swift and men of valor in battle." go "over smooth ground" and "trample the earth with their horses and with their animals; and from afar they come, from the coasts of the sea." They "sacrifice to their standards, and their weapons of war are the object of their worship." Exponents of the theory that...