Word: valorous
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sometimes I wish that that great master of intuition, the Nazi leader, could have been present at the Quebec conference. ... If he and his generals had known our plans they would have realized that discretion is still the greater part of valor and that surrender would pay them better now than later...
Cake-making Miss Smith has pleasantly seasoned her first novel-an old-fashioned family pudding of well-baked corn-with two simple and staple condiments: authentic recollections of childhood and a well-communicated respect for the endless valor of the poor...
...shrouding 'the tortured factory, anxious men elsewhere in Stalingrad said: "Stepan Gurtiev, that's the man for you." Of his 50 years, Gurtiev had spent 28 in the army. His men loved him, but feared him too, for "Tovarish Commander" tolerated no flaws in training, discipline or valor...
...story of love and violence in the Spanish Civil War. Gary Cooper is Robert Jordan, Hemingway's young Montana schoolteacher who has come to Spain to fight for democracy everywhere. Gary Cooper, over the years, has so cornered the beloved American romantic virtues of taciturnity, melancholy, tenderness, valor and masculine gauche grace that he has become, for millions, a sort of Abraham Lincoln of American sex. He plays modestly, sometimes beautifully...
...garrison at Pantelleria, told to "hold the line" by Mussolini, did so with commendable valor, an indication that the universally maligned and notoriously misled Italian troops will not necessarily wilt away before the first invasion troops...