Word: gallantly
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...handed over to the enemy. The best of its male youth was dead or disabled. Shortages of food, medicine and clothing were tying up the task of resettling half a million refugees from the ceded areas. And the rest of the world, which had loudly applauded Finland's gallant fight last winter, turned its sympathies to new underdogs in the fall. Though free and independent, Finland was thoughtlessly classed with the conquered and occupied countries of Europe. Its relief problems were loosely lumped with those of nations under the Axis thumb. Many people misguidedly feared that help for unblockaded...
...broken (TIME, Nov. 25), the Greeks continued pressing, working with geography instead of against it. Frantically, the Italians called on their Air Force to strafe and disperse the attackers, and for a day or two there was carnage around Corizza. Then the R. A. F. arrived to bolster the gallant but rickety Greek Air Force. In a few hours, Spitfires and Hurricanes smacked down so many Italians that toward the end of the battle not a Fascist wing dared come across that...
...Puerto Rico-two British freighters last week each reported sighting "a suspicious vessel." The Port Hobart, in the south, later reported she was being shelled, then fell silent. The Trehata, in the north, was not heard from again. The British Navy, busy searching for the killer who sank the gallant Jervis Bay on Nov. 5, could only conclude that not one but two German raiders were on the loose...
...better of the going, and the tide had almost turned Brown's way when one of MacKinney's punts had been blocked a minute or so earlier. MacKinney's pass interception was his final contribution to the game, and it was the beginning of the end for the gallant Bruins. Spreyer and Lyman kept the ball moving all the way to the goal...
...Ernest Hemingway created a stripped, hard-boiled prose for telling terse, hard-boiled stories about broken-down bullfighters, ham prizefighters, gallant trollops, homosexuals, mugs, spiritual victims of the war. "The lost generation" quickly turned his books into bestsellers, tried to talk like Hemingway characters as they sipped raw alcohol in speakeasies, tried to write Hemingway stories in garrets and penthouses. None wrote as well...