Pull Out Feathers Crossword

Pull out feathers crossword clue. A Daily mail quick crossword question today, 26 July 2017. 5 letters

The answer: PLUCK

Forster’s pluck in speaking out like this was fully appreciated in England, but it was not till after the revelations connected with the Phoenix Park murders that the dangers he had confronted were properly realized, and it became known that several plans to murder him had only been frustrated by the merest accidents.

Unfortunately the new government proved wholly unable either to conduct the struggle with France successfully or to pluck up courage to make a humiliating peacethe only wise course before them.