Word: valores
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...ever impugned Giraud's honor, nor had reason to doubt his military valor and his love of France. But when he became High Commissioner of North Africa, succeeding the assassinated Admiral Jean Darlan, the world knew very little else about...
...confusion of defeat after the Nazis seized their country, Yugoslav soldiers made their way to their ancient refuge, the hills. There Mihailovich, the ranking officer, assumed command of guerrilla fighting. His valor and the skill of his soldiers captured the world's headlines. To much of the outside world, Mihailovich became a symbol of freedom.*But to many Yugoslav patriots, intellectuals and peasants, he became a symbol of the discredited Belgrade government clique and the Kara George dynasty which first gave Yugoslavia dictatorial King Alexander, then, after his assassination, a Fascist-minded set of regents while King Peter...
From the Naval Hospital in San Diego came an unforgettable story of valor on a bloody night on jungled Guadalcanal. On an iron hospital cot lay Marine Private Albert A. Schmid, 23, husky son of a Philadelphia brewery worker, who, on a moonlight night last August, manned a machine gun that almost singlehandedly cut off an enemy advance...
...Cinemactor Kelly, expecting a date at The Palace, cripples his hand to dodge the draft, then becomes an overseas Y.M.C.A. entertainer in remorse, at last achieves military valor, the renewed love of Miss Garland and the long-deferred moment on the stage of The Palace...
...constant menace to Axis supply routes in the Mediterranean. She is a base for British submarines. She is a potential base for an attack on southern Europe. And deeper than practical reasons, she has become Britain's symbol of resistance, as Stalingrad and Bataan became symbols of valor to Britain's allies...