Word: valorize
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...most notable common trait is resignation-a resignation that sometimes dresses itself up in a splendid refusal to surrender, a defiant rejection of the unconditional terms that life demands. Hemingway, Faulkner, Graham Greene, J. P. Marquand, Elizabeth Bowen, Evelyn Waugh-they all record, in their various manners, the hopeless valor, the quiet desperation of a rearguard action, a doomed though indomitable next-to-last stand...
...Scrymgeours are an ancient Scots family whose 12th century ancestor, Sir Alexander Carron, was surnamed the "Skyrmisheour" because of his valor in battle. In 1641 Charles I made John Scrymgeour Viscount Dudhope, a title that was to descend to "his heirs male lawfully begotten . . . whom failing his heirs male whatsoever." But when the third Viscount Dudhope (pronounced Duddop) died leaving no immediate heirs, the Dudhope lands were ruthlessly grabbed by the Earl of Lauderdale, crony of the profligate Charles II and High Sheriff of Edinburgh. The earl, a man of violent temper, bullied a court of sessions into upholding...
...another medal for Whitney Straight's already heavily decorated chest. Straight, who was born in New York,*raised in England, and became a British citizen in 1936, was an R.A.F. pilot during World War II. He shot down at least three planes, won both the Military Cross for valor and the Distinguished Flying Cross, toward war's end helped run Britain's Transport Group as an air commodore. When he took on the BOAC job five years ago, even his friends thought he was showing bravery far beyond the call of duty. BOAC had a bewildering variety...
Italy's ex-Field Marshal Rodolfo ("The Lion of Neghelli") Graziani, 69, who served part of a prison term for World War II collaboration with the Nazis, suffered a still further fall from honor. A government decree in Rome stripped him of four military medals for valor awarded between...
...heart attack; at his home in exile, a hotel in Mce, France. Orphaned in 1914 when his mother and his father, Archduke Francis Ferdinand, were assassinated at Sarajevo -the spark that touched off World War I -Maximilian took command of an Austrian infantry battalion, won decorations for valor in fighting the Italians. After the Armistice, he was mostly in flight, in exile, or in the Nazis' "protective custody," ended up a forgotten anachronism living under the alias "the Count of Kyburg...