Word: valor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Russia, millions serve in home-guard units for air-raid defense. Numberless women joined the Partisans during the Nazi occupation. The Government has decorated 4,575 women for valor on the battlefield. Six women have won the Government's highest award...
Married. Navy Lieut. Joseph Knefler Taussig Jr., 23, Annapolis '41, holder of the Navy Cross (for Pearl Harbor valor), only son of outspoken Vice Admiral Taussig; and Betty Bostwick Carney, 23, daughter of Rear Admiral Robert Bostwick Carney; in Washington...
...Soviet Union's omnipotent nine-man Politburo, an intimate friend of Stalin. Before the war, he urged seizure of eastern Finland and the Baltic States. When war came, he helped to pull Leningrad through the 515 terrible days of siege. A priest's son, he fought with valor in World War I, helped to break up the Czarist Army with slogans of peace, bread and land, slowly climbed up the ladder of party hierarchy. Soapbox-oratory has given him a chronic hoarseness. He is a tremendously able organizer, an articulate speaker, a student of foreign affairs...
...insignia will depict the sword of valor against a lamp of knowledge. The sword and lamp are in dark blue on a yellow, octagon-shape patch...
...green crews who had to be trained on the spot); 2) continuous, violent, swift movement northwards (with the camera leaping from planes to trucks to trains to boats to bulldozers). It is this ceaseless, driving movement-which was the essence of the project-that imparts a quality of great valor to the workers, their machines, their lonely towns and camps, the prodigious country they work...