Word: valores
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...WHEREAS, except for the valor, bravery and foresight of that great and eminent leader and statesman, the Hon. J. Thomas Heflin, senior Senator from Alabama, this country would be defenseless against such an attack...
...full of shrieks, confetti and shredded ticker tape. Twelve thousand police carried no clubs; but linked arms, used hands, charged on horseback to keep the crowds from absorbing the parade on narrow Broadway. At the City Hall, Mayor James J. Walker presented Colonel Lindbergh with the city Medal of Valor, said to him: "We are familiar with the editorial 'we,' but not until your arrival in Paris did we learn of the aeronautical 'we'." At Central Park the struggling grasses were browbeaten while 250,000 humans watched Governor Alfred Emanuel Smith pin upon Colonel Lindbergh...
...marks emphatically the contrast between the scientific and the personal in war. One submarine did ten times the damage done by the Sea Eagle; but it is not to the deadly reptiles of the under-ocean but to the daring sailing-vessel of the surface that the pain for valor goes...
None would allow himself to survive the disgrace of defeat in the coming action. . . . When battle came, the Admiral stood for a whole day unscathed on the bridge of his flagship, while half the officers who stood with him were hit by fragments of shells. . . . Forced to display a valor equally prodigious, his captains did not fail him. . . . Port Arthur fell.* Colossal Russia reeled. Minute Japan took rank among the mighty. From that day began in earnest the struggle for sea power which placed Japan at the Washington Conference (1921) on a 3 5-5† basis ± with...
...unearthing of governmental scandals is an unpleasant procedure, and often a hazardous and thankless one. In bringing to light the faults of the system of which he was a part, Colonel Mitchell is displaying a form of valor that is even greater than that of the battlefield. Facing the probable indignation of the public and the inevitable wrath of one's superiors requires firmer mettle than does the facing of cannons. Instead of being dishonorably discharged from the army, as it is threatened he will be, Colonel Mitchell should be awarded a medal for distinguished service...