Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...terrorists to call off the violence-and, said Kranidiotis, he would be obeyed. Asked why the peace-loving Archbishop had not done this earlier, Kranidiotis explained that, as the elected representative of the Cypriot people, the Archbishop had been bound to heed their inclinations, which were in "the Greek heroic tradition...
...Heroic Sailor Horatio Hornblower is a durable fiction stalwart who has seized his own creator, Britain's Novelist C. S. (The African Queen) Forester, and, ever bolstered by readers clamoring for more, will not let him go. In Britain's weekly Spectator, Author Forester last week disclosed the agony to which his hero has long subjected him. Excerpt from Ballade to an Old Friend: I set Your Lordship in the House of Peers- / But you have brought me many a quid pro quo / Because we've been together twenty years . . . / Yet horrid Horry mawkish matelot, / Obnoxious more...
...hands with the large majority of the American press and even some members of Congress in the condemnation of the U.S. Marine Corps on account of the Parris Island tragedy [April 23]. Perhaps these forgetful individuals do not remember the overflowing volume of praise that was heaped upon this heroic organization during World War II and Korea...
...Caudillo was angry. Said he: "Because we are strong we can afford to be generous. This is why we pay no attention to the silly intrigues of a few dozen would-be politicians and their followers." Then Franco threatened: "If they should ever disturb the realization of our heroic destiny . . . we would open the flood of blue shirts and red berets that would throw them...
...heroic, traditional act of bailing out with a parachute is getting less and less popular as airplanes fly faster and higher. Pilots have landed alive (though in poor condition) after bailing out above the speed of sound (TIME, Nov. 21), but according to experts of the Office of Naval Research, no ejection-seat and parachute combination can save a pilot flying more than 1,900 m.p.h. at 70,000 ft. Less speed would be fatal at lower altitudes, because the thicker air would hit the pilot with a harder decelerating jolt...