Word: valores
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Beaming citizens of Carlyle, Ill. (pop. 2,700) heartily cheered Major General William F. Dean on a visit to his boyhood home town. Brushing aside the home folks' tribute to his valor, Dean spoke sharply: "Anybody who's dumb enough to get captured shouldn't be called a hero...
...seemed certain to go down in a storm, and even the captain "burst into tears and ran below deck," young Byron, with as much bravery as bravado, "wrapped myself up in my Albanian capote (an immense cloak) and lay down on deck to wait the worst." On shore, his valor was heartily rewarded by the female population of Greece...
...Cold Valor." Franklin hobnobbed with royalty and other big-name people -Mary Garden, Fritz Kreisler, Pablo Casals, Douglas Fairbanks Sr. At another extreme, he once engaged in a memorable ten-day spree with a tribe of back-jungle Mexican Indians who were fascinated by his red hair, and took steps to see that the next batch of children...
...reporter for the North American News Alliance, he covered the Spanish Civil War with his good friend Ernest Hemingway, who wrote, in 1932, in Death in the Afternoon: "Franklin is brave with a cold, serene and intelligent valor . . . He is one of the most skillful, graceful, and slow manipulators of cape fighting today . . . No history of bullfighting that is ever written can be complete unless it gives him the space he is entitled...
When the Communists invaded South Korea, the U.S. did respond in the only honorable way, with "sheer valor-valor on all the Korean mountain sides that, each day, bear fresh scars of new graves...