Word: valor
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...heard that Mezzo-Soprano Jennie Tourel was scheduled to be soloist in the cantata Alexander Nevsky, a eulogy to a 13th Century Russian patriot, they stirred up civic feeling against the lyrics. Everybody was happy after the word "Russians" was changed to "people," "Russian soil" to "fertile soil," "Russian valor" to "native valor...
Otherwise little happened. Navaro blew its best chance to score because the right forward was so busy exhorting his teammates to acts of valor that he failed to notice he had the ball and a clear shot at the goal. Rome lost a scoring shot when a one-man rush ended with the forward tripping over the ball and falling down. All other rushes ended in a sudden confusion that all players seemed to feel as soon as they entered the enemy's zone...
...Exposed to relentless hostile fire," he read, "[Chambers] coolly reorganized his battle-weary men, inspiring them to heroic efforts by his own valor and leading them in an attack on the critical, impregnable high ground from which the enemy was pouring an increasing volume of fire . . ." For eight hours on that Feb. 19, 1945, Jumping Joe had concentrated a lifetime's cunning, shrewdness and bravery on silencing the murderous Japanese guns, had finally been carried away under fire, blasted by an enemy machine gun. His was the 431st Medal of Honor of World War II, the Both...
...threatened invasion of Rome from Sicily, ordered the blood-sported corporal brought within the safety of Orvieto's walls. Inspired by the miracle (Orvietans declare), Urban IV instituted the feast of Corpus Christi. He then presented the corporal to the "good people of Orvieto who with much valor and sacrifice saved our person and protected us, thereby fully deserving the honor to protect the Lamb's blood as they saved the Lamb's vicar...
...presiding general said, however, that the court had kept in mind Graziani's four decades of honorable service, his "serious war wounds" (from World War I), and "the fact that [he] acted for reasons of particular moral valor." The sentence: 19 years. Because of Italy's general amnesties and the nearly five years he had already spent in confinement, Graziani would have only 14 more months to serve...