Word: valorize
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...valor in an infantryman's heart, which causes him to go out to 'inevitable death' to save the lives of his fellows and to enable his company to advance against seemingly impossible odds, is the valor which cannot be taught to a man. He has it or he doesn't - Private Minue...
...Lipstick and crossed legs are attractive features of the American scene. TIME meant no slight to Captain Grod-zka and her Pestkas, who have proved their valor at firsthand...
Three men were honored for valor in Canada last week: one in death, one on his homecoming, one with the British Empire's rarest medal...
...Their teamwork was bad. The Red Air Force (then being re-equipped with new models) was weak, tank tactics faulty. In the bitter days of retreat, Voronov found himself woefully short of the weapon his foe had aplenty-trench mortars. But his heavier guns fought with skill and stubborn valor: of the few thousand German tanks disabled in the first months of war, Voronov's guns wrecked every third...
...Americans fighting bravely for their country. But the Major's family has been fighting for this country since the first Callaway landed in Virginia in the middle of the 17th Century. His great-great-grandfather, a Virginia colonel of cavalry, was voted a medal by Congress for his valor in the Revolutionary War. Another ancestor, Colonel Richard Callaway, was one of the Southern financiers who backed Daniel Boone in his wilderness explorations. He was scalped in an Indian massacre while helping to subdue that wilderness...