Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With just the right touch of respect for his elders, Comrade Nikita Khrushchev, 64, wafted eastward a friendly birthday message for Comrade Mao Tse-tung, 65, hailed his "untiring and many-sided activities in leading the heroic struggle of the Chinese people and the Chinese Communist Party...
There are notable and heroic exceptions. One pastor and his wife, both university graduates, abandoned hope of further academic schooling for their five children rather than submit them to Youth Dedication. All five backed up their parents, are learning manual trades instead. One bishop's son renounced higher education on his own. rather than undergo the pagan ceremony, is now working as an unskilled laborer in a cement plant...
...masterly exposition of a heroic myth, extricated by Scriptwriter Carl Foreman from a second-rate sea novel by Jan de Hartog (TIME, July...
...life of Gladys Aylward. Something of the woman's flame-simple, stone-actual spirit is unquestionably preserved in the film, but all too often the religious force of her example is prettily dissipated in the delusive grandeurs of the wide screen, and safely explained away in entertainingly heroic tropes and grossly commercial moments of the heart...
...must now regroup the heroic people who withstood the witch hunt and unite them with labor," Wohlforth declared. "Then the American working class will, at last, be organized on the political level, and we socialists will be in our world...