Word: valour
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...valour, for thy virtues more...
...young Churchill duly records the Crown's triumph in the Sudan over "these savages with their vile customs and brutal ideas." But in South Africa, he praises "the stubborn, unpretentious valour of the Boer." British set backs make him fudge, apologize, sermonize. He is capable of humor, though. "Islam," he writes, "does indeed teach man how to die, [but] dying is a trick very few people have been unable to pick...
...safe to say that in this case a solid argument can be made for divestment on economic grounds. Yale, financially much harder pressed than Harvard and so presumably quite hesitant to walk away from a promising stock, let alone a true gold mine, apparently took the low road to valour a few weeks ago by selling its shares of Gulf as part of routine portfolio management...
...would true valour...
...sincere effort to cement good will between the two largest English-speaking nations. That feeling is best typified in one sentence of a message from Winston Churchill, opposite the frontispiece: "To those who did not return the best memorial is the fellowship of our two countries, which by their valour they created and by their sacrifice they have preserved...