Word: valorized
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...weather and valor and Russian blunders are not enough, if Finland fails, if Scandinavia has to fight, its three nations can muster between them less than 1,000,000 men, of which Sweden would furnish more than half. The Swedish Air Force has some 250 planes, Norway's and Denmark's less than 100 each. Sweden has a small but efficient Navy of six cruisers, three pocket battleships, five coast defense ships, one aircraft carrier, eight destroyers, eight torpedo boats, 16 submarines and 31 motor torpedo boats. Neither Norway nor Denmark has anything that might be called...
...beat on the entire press of the U. S. with a story of the mobilization of French colonial troops. His cable to the Courier revealed that France was raising a black army of 2,000,000 soldiers, 500,000 laborers. Including the Senegalese fighters who were famed for valor in War I, it is the biggest Negro army ever assembled. One week after Merguson's dispatch appeared in the Courier, the New York Times carried a wireless message from Paris confirming...
...twelve masked architects hissed their voodoo dance, word came that Ghost Hater Chalie Apted of the Yard Police was on his way to break up the Performance. A few reached for their bursar's cards, as others decided that discretion is the better part of valor,' as one of them trenchantly phrased...
Morize received the Croix de Guerre for valor after being wounded three times during the last war. Last year he was awarded the cross of an officer in the Legion of Honor...
...Robert Anthony Eden served in World War I as a captain, was decorated for valor (Military Cross), came out a Brigade Major, remained a major in the Territorials. In the Cabinet and out his chief characteristics were his impeccable clothes and his championship of meeting force with force. Early last week, just before World War II seemed sure, Major Eden put on his King's Royal Rifle Corps uniform, posed in front of a tent (see cut), hurried off to his battalion guarding London's East End docks. But before Great Britain fired its first shot and practically...