Word: bravest
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hysterical giggles." He predicted that Edward Ringwood Hewitt's savory volume of reminiscences, Those Were The Days (TIME, Dec. 27) "will be read and remembered when the apologies of current admirals and the postured stompings and poutings and cries of 'Me, I'm the bravest one' of war correspondents have been baled up for the winter furnace. The heroics and hysteria of wars are mostly dreary stuff...
...siege, Melitopol fell. Said Moscow's Izvestia: "Not one live German remains in the town. The dead ones can be counted by the thousands." Before the city fell, Hitler reportedly trebled each officer's pay, gave each soldier the Iron Cross. Stalin made the bravest of the victors Heroes of the Soviet Union...
...there was skepticism about OWM, it seemed something of a pity. This was the President's bravest and best try yet to do three great tasks: 1) to develop really strong overall programs to make maximum use of the nation's industry and manpower, 2) to resolve the bitter conflicts within the Administration, 3) to meet squarely most of the pressures from without...
Elisabet was a grandniece of that intrepid Marshal of Napoleon who led a premature charge at Waterloo and who was known as the Bravest of the Brave. Elisabet herself never did anything but charge, always prematurely. If she was not brave it is because that virtue cannot be ascribed to anyone who has never suspected the existence of fear. She was tall, milk-fleshed, redhaired, chokingly beautiful. She was-she thought-an intense idealist...
Army pursuit pilots never spoke of "Buzz" Wagner except in superlatives. He was to them the best, the bravest, the hottest pilot-and the swellest guy-in the Air Forces. They said he could buzz the camouflage off the top of a hangar without touching it. Once, in the Philippines, he shot down a Jap Zero while he was flying upside down. He knew how to get between the Japs and the sun, then pop them off while they were blinded...