Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hero records were not all made in military service. Perhaps the most heroic image of all is that of towering (6 ft. 4½ in., 240 Ibs.) Paul Sutton, 46, running against Republican William Broomfield, 34, in Michigan's 18th District. For ten years Sutton starred on the radio program Sergeant Preston of the Yukon. Even so, he is losing...
Though he thus barred himself from the fighting, Trumbull dreamed of recording it for posterity. In London he made a pilgrimage to the studio of compatriot Painter Benjamin West, who urged that Trumbull stick to small pictures that his one eye could compass. This led Trumbull to compress heroic compositions into canvases more concentrated and powerful than West's own. Returning after the Revolution, he traveled from New Hampshire to South Carolina to portray the VIPs of a Very Important Period, and to sketch the quieted battlefields...
...Stoppage of the heart on the operating table is probably the commonest cause of death during surgery. Prompt and heroic repair measures are often reported, but Drs. K. William Edmark and Henry N. Harkins of the University of Washington outlined something better-a way to anticipate and thus prevent the stoppage before it happens. They use a cardio-tachometer, with two electrodes taped to the patient's chest. A heart about to stop, they find, gives a full 30 seconds' warning by a drastic slowdown. The same electrodes can be used to give the faltering heart an electrical...
From a mirrored salon in the ornate Hotel Matignon, official residence of France's Premiers, mild-mannered Socialist Guy Mollet last week cried out to his countrymen: "I ask every Frenchman to do his duty, to subscribe for Algeria and for France!" In these heroic words Premier Mollet imposed a sweet wartime sacrifice on France's citizens-the moral ob ligation to do a good piece of business at government expense...
Grey Commander; George Nader, the Embittered Subordinate; Lex Barker, the Soft Socialite Hardened by War; William Reynolds, the Callow Youth Who Matures; Don Keefer, the Officer Who Goes to Pieces. Also present are the Good Padre, the Heroic Doctor, the Pugnacious Irishman and the Expectant Father...