Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that. Last week in Rome, Italy's Foreign Minister Gaetano Martino, waiting to greet a distinguished German visitor, Konrad Adenauer, told of a triumph of toastmanship achieved by the hardheaded, steel-stomached old man on his visit to Moscow last September. Unaware of der Alte's heroic capacity for hard liquor, Communist Party Chief Khrushchev had proposed one toast after another at a state banquet, watching eagerly as the German Chancellor drained glass after glass of vodka. At the end of some 15 toasts, Adenauer was still going strong, and able to note a slight transformation in Khrushchev...
...Counts of Toulouse ruled Southern France for centuries, but nothing in the life of his heroic forebears became the Toulouses so much as the gallantry with which the disfigured dwarf made of himself a gay, broken blade in Paris. He never developed the cripple's defense mechanism of a sweet nature; instead he swaggered through the world on toddler's legs. He drank big men under tables as high as his proud chin. When he closed his eyes, he experienced the horrors of alcoholic hallucination, but with his eyes open, Count Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec saw with...
...that the Senate knew was colored by the loss of his naval-aviator son in World War II. "If the free people of this globe lose confidence in us, we shall disappoint the best hopes of mankind−and we shall utterly fail to justify the sacrifices of our heroic dead, who have died in nearly all lands and have been swallowed up by the blue waters of nearly all oceans...
Sakacs was started on a heroic regimen of four antibiotics plus sulfa drugs. Bubonic plague itself is not highly contagious. But there was a danger that the disease might spread to his lungs−where it would become the dangerously infectious form known as pneumonic plague, or "Black Death."* Two dozen people who had come in contact with him got sulfa and an antibiotic as a preventive...
...Wall Street office last week, two shirtsleeved Washington State wheat farmers tackled a heroic task in a historic cause. As commissioners of Grant County's tiny (12,805 customers) Public Utility District No. 2, the farmers started signing their names 166,000 times on revenue bonds that will set in motion the nation's third biggest hydroelectric development (after Grand Coulee and Hoover Dams). It will be the first to be built under President Eisenhower's policy of power partnership between private and public utilities. The project: Columbia River dams and power plants at Priest Rapids...