Word: valor
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...their brawl over the fickle favors of Cineminx Barbara Payton three years ago, settled out of court with Lloyds of London, accepted $17,500 insurance for his clobbering. In reply to Tone's original $63,666,66 suit, Lloyds claimed, in effect, that he had displayed indiscreet valor by provoking Neal, then by sticking his hitherto unmarred face in the way of Big Tom's flying knuckles...
...self-conscious bravery; his old lady in a wicker chair, a sort of off-key Whistler's mother, is the essence of enduring patience. Even his cadaverous Skid Row figures, asleep amid prowling mongrels and a litter of old newspapers on a sidewalk, exhibit a kind of desperate valor. Says Smith: "They may be resigned, even despairing, but they're still trying to live...
Faced with this information, University officials decided that discretion was perhaps the better part of valor, despite the fact that Copland had denied all Communist affiliations before a Congressional committee. The president of the University subsequently notified Copland that the lecturing invitation had been cancelled...
...Isolated Position. The valor of the Light Brigade went unnoticed by Lord Cardigan, who returned to his yacht, had a light supper and some champagne and went to bed. All he admitted later was "some apprehension that for a general his isolated position was unusual." Not once had he noticed the valley, strewn with dead and dying. Some 700 horsemen made the charge; only 195 came back...
Sidney Franklin is brave with a cold, serene and intelligent "valor . . . No history of bullfighting that is ever written can be complete unless it gives him the space he is entitled...