Word: valor
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Blood made mud of Greek pastures last May. Out of this mud came three heroes last week, New Zealanders all. For valor in the Battles of Greece and Crete they were awarded Victoria Crosses...
...President of Peru I can state that I am proud not only of the valor of our soldiers but of the humanity and noblesse which they have shown in the occupied towns, awakening the gratitude and admiration...
Last April, Wing Commander Straight got the Military Cross for valor at Dunkirk. Last week he led his squadron of Hurricane fighters in an attack on Nazi Channel shipping. As he suddenly pulled out of a dive, his motor streaming smoke, he radioed: "I have been hit and am going to force-land in France. . . . Squadron to return to its base." He was last seen gliding toward the Nazi shore...
...spent so many years hoping and groping for a world of reason and self-respect. As a boy he had made many friends on the playing fields of Eton. As a 17-year-old soldier he was decorated for valor in World War I. Then he had worked hard as an agent in the expansion of the Empire, in the Congo and in Libya, where he sadly disapproved of General Rodolfo Graziani's ruthlessness. At home in Italy he was the most popular member of the royal family. In Ethiopia he wanted to simplify the Italianate bureaucracy along British...
...Yugoslavs reacted to this nonsense by marching to battle with song. The Greeks, who have tasted the fruits of valor, answered not only with gunfire but with taunts and with determination. They shouted a new version of the classic boast: "We shall throw them into the sea-into the Baltic Sea." They talked a little prematurely of the day the war would end-when Evzones would march through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin...