Word: valor
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...history of 1940 has taught, among other melancholy lessons, that valor plus vigor do not equal victory. While they took heart at apparent successes, responsible Greeks thought that if their country was to survive despite the odds, it would owe its survival to British assistance and to Italian asininity. And responsible neutral observers could not see how either could be great enough to give Greece anything but a reprieve...
...even French planes); the tacit support of Germany, with some 70 divisions of 1,125,000 men poised in the Balkans (according to British sources), against overt help from Britain, militarily pinned down at home and in Egypt. Despite this apparently overwhelming disparity, the Greeks chose to fight. Ancient valor was reborn...
...Presented the Army & Navy Legion of Valor's annual medal to 14-year-old Donn Fendler of Rye, N. Y. Boy Scout Fendler, who had his hair slicked for the occasion, ate berries and kept his head while lost in the Maine woods for seven days in July...
...Long, dark months of trial and tribulation lie before us. Not only many dangers but many more misfortunes, many mistakes and disappointments will surely be our lot; death and sorrow will be our companions on the journey, hardship our garment, constancy and valor our only shield...
Herbert Matthews is a reporter of considerable personal bravery. He served as a private in the A. E. F. Tank Corps in World War I. The Italians themselves made him the first journalist, Italian or foreign, to win an Italian War Cross, for valor he showed when ambushed with some Italian soldiers in Ethiopia. It took courage to return to Italy after boosting the Loyalist cause for two years in Spain. His remarks to the press on receiving his walking papers took some courage, too. "I am told here that Mr. Roosevelt was making a political issue of my dispatch...