Word: valor
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Last week this "selfless and sustained devotion to duty" brought for "Hammy" Gray the British Empire's highest award for valor-the Victoria Cross. He was Canada's 13th V.C. and the sixth from British Columbia...
...Take an Edict." King Clode summoned the Royal Recorder. His Majesty dictated: "Write it plain and write it clear: No son of mine shall wed a deer." But the smart princess had already given King Clode's sons, Princes Thag, Callow and Jorn, deeds of valor to perform in rivalry for her hand-or, it might be, hoof...
Next day he donned his khaki uniform with its seven stars (for Marshal of France) and one decoration-the gold-and-blue Médaille Militaire, France's highest award for valor. Then he shuffled from his Palais lodging (a 14 ft. by 12 ft. magistrate's cloakroom) to the prisoner's dock in the jampacked chamber...
...Owing to the action of Mr. de Valera, so much at variance with the temper and instinct of thousands of southern Irishmen, who hastened to the battlefront to prove their ancient valor, the approaches which the southern Irish ports and airfields could so easily have guarded were closed by the hostile aircraft and U-boats. This was indeed a deadly moment in our life, and if it had not been for the loyalty and friendship of northern Ireland, we should have been forced to come to close quarters with Mr. de Valera or perish forever from the earth. However, with...
...Valley of Decision (MGM), Marcia Davenport's highly colored best seller about steel and several generations of steelmen and their women and chil dren, would have been no easy job to adapt for the screen, at best. In choosing too often the better part of valor, MGM has permitted too little of the imaginable best to survive. It was probably discreet to reduce Mrs. Davenport's 790-page chronicle to a few years and a few major episodes, but they move with little essential vitality, at a wedding-march pace...