Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...withdraw the nomination, he reasons, the act would lend credence to charges that Haynsworth was less than candid about his financial dealings. Nixon also stands to gain political points in the South; Southerners, who appreciate the style of the gallant loser, will credit the President for his valiant fight on behalf of their man. Nixon's refusal to quit is also aimed at muting criticism that he has been a vacillating leader...
...valiant effort on our part." Clark said solemnly after the match. "We were rebounding from a tough Friday night at a local campus tavern, and we were looking forward to a free keg of beer that the proprietor had promised us for breaking up a brawl in the back room...
That image has grown a bit tarnished of late. Before the Six-Day War, Israel was seen as a valiant underdog surrounded by hostile giants. Its victory in that war was widely cheered, but as the border conflict ground on, the feeling began to develop that Israel was being a little too tough in its retaliation, a little too intransigent in its refusal to yield any of the occupied territories without an overall settlement. To avenge an El Al passenger's murder by terrorists in Athens, Israel destroyed 13 aircraft in Beirut. It has annexed all of Jerusalem...
...unsung delights of freshmen week is a wonderful little non-event known as tea with the Pusses. In one valiant effort, Nate and the missus open up their Quincy Street home and you, as a new member of the class of 73, get to queue up and shake their hand before retiring to the punch bowl where a bunch of Episcopal chaplains try to trap you into conversation. It's about the only occasion on which you're apt to find most of your classmates wearing dark, two-piece suits. Personally, I don't remember what the Puse said...
This rather sad, silly and sterile proposition is seen through a teary blur of bravery. Thank You might have been subtitled Orphan of the Sexual Storm. Seduced, pregnant and very much alone, Sandy Dennis, an arch-valiant London waif, decides to have her baby anyway. She wouldn't dream of darkening her parents' door, and they have left for Africa anyway. She is too proud to tell the father (Ian McKellen), a BBC TV announcer who was only with her for one gravid night. Apparently she takes a dim view of his husbandly potential in any case, though...