Word: valor
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...ambiguities that had marked his words on neutrality. It was eloquent: "On this tenth day of June, 1940, in this university founded by the first great American teacher of democracy, we send forth our prayers and our hopes to those beyond the seas who are maintaining with magnificent valor their battle for freedom." It was specific in its promise of aid: "In our American unity ... we will extend to the opponents of force the material resources of this nation, and, at the same time, we will harness and speed up the use of those resources in order that we ourselves...
...Italian people, rush to arms and show your tenacity, your courage, your valor." In Paris, which he was soon to leave as the Germans drew nearer, hard-pressed Premier Reynaud sighed:"And this is the moment that Mussolini chooses to declare war on us! France has. nothing...
...struggle was protracted and fierce. Suddenly the scene has cleared. The crash and thunder has momentarily, but only for the moment, died away. The miracle of deliverance achieved by the valor and perseverance, perfect discipline, faultless service, skill and unconquerable vitality is a manifesto...
...result was a scene of carnage and valor more concentrated in space & time than anything modern history ever saw: men by hundreds of thousands retreating in a desperation to live, other men by hundreds of thousands pressing forward in a desperation to surround, slaughter, annihilate. To preserve morale on both sides, and because the arithmetic was next to impossible, true figures on the loss of life were glossed over officially. But it could be guessed that not less than 500,000 men were killed, wounded or captured in seven days on a patch of earth about the size...
...yourselves and be ye men of valor and be in readiness for the conflict, for it is better for us to perish in battle than to look upon the outrage of our nation and our altars...