Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...position of a country is not determined wholly by the troops that it keeps. It is determined also by their economic, their spiritual, their intellectual strength, as well as their purely military." Britain, said he, in a mixed metaphor that fascinated the experts (see PRESS), "has had a really heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water." So the British are "trying ... to cut their cloth, you might say, according to what they had, and not to what they would like to have." Ike conceded that "their reduction has disturbed some of our NATO partners...
...Eisenhower said at his press conference that Britain had a heroic row to hoe in trying to keep its economic nose above water, and that it is trying to cut the cloth to what it has, not to what it would like to have. As we understand it, what the President is saying here is that the British are having to sink or swim in their effort to plant the seedbed of a viable economy, and that they cannot insist upon sewing too fine a seam in doing it. To put it another way and quite simply, the United Kingdom...
...famously light-hearted plastic surgeon, to illustrate the infinite challenges to the imagination that are found in his difficult surgical specialty. A massive new study now tells how Sir Harold and his colleagues treat human flesh as if it were sculptor's clay and reports on the latest heroic operations which restore mutilated bodies to human shape. For a full account, see MEDICINE, Flap Happy...
Some Gillies operations are notable for lively ingenuity: he has reconstructed eyelids, complete with lashes, from the edge of the eyebrow. Others are heroic. He does not flinch from cutting through the bones of the upper jaw so that most of the face is detached from its moorings, then fixing the bones in a new alignment. And some patients are heroic: a woman whose entire lower jaw was removed for cancer in 1939, so that her tongue hung down her neck, has had 27 plastic operations. She has a new lower jaw with a denture, and eats normally. Though...
...point of topical slanginess ("Imagine her fitted by Dior!"). Ovid, Humphries argues, would have done the same. In a faintly disguised account of his own liaisons about town (The Loves), Ovid sees a love affair in two lights-either as sunlit sensuality or as a kind of mock-heroic comedy...