Word: valorize
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...from the west. Closing the vise, the 1st Cavalry bored in from the north. With their back to the sea, where the rockets and guns of U.S. Navy vessels made escape impossible, the Reds could either fight and die, or surrender. A record number chose the lesser part of valor, producing the highest prisoner count of any operation in the war. As Operation Irving progressed, some 320 surrendering Viet Cong stumbled into the grasp of the Aircav alone...
...reasons for the war do not always seem clear to all Americans, few can fail to be moved by the tales of individual valor and self-sacrifice that the conflict has inspired. One of the most gallant of all was written last week on the rugged Kontum plateau by a man who had first won hero credentials on the football field: Army Captain William Stanley Carpenter Jr., 28, the famed "lonely end" and captain of West Point's 1959 team...
...kind of leadership he gave at West Point. What he did in South Viet Nam is something I would almost have expected. I look for him to be Chief of Staff some day." At the White House, Press Secretary Bill Moyers told reporters that Carpenter's valor had impressed the President too. "He finds it an inspiring chapter in the Viet Nam story," said Moyers. Fittingly enough, Bill Carpenter was nominated by his field commander last week for the Medal of Honor...
When it comes to defending the horrendous hodgepodge of U.S. farm policy, Louisiana's Allen Ellender, 74, has long since learned that befuddlement is the better part of valor. Last week the Senate Agriculture Committee's twelve-year chairman had the unenviable task of introducing the Administration's 1965 farm bill. "I ask Senators," said he, "not to pin me down to too much detail." Would the bill solve the problems of U.S. agriculture? "If I were able to do that," allowed Ellender, "I would not be in the Senate. I would be Somewhere Else...
...HARM'S WAY. Vice, valor and victory in the Pacific at the outset of World War II, with John Wayne and Patricia Neal heading a do-or-die cast commanded by Director Otto Preminger...