Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their fathers may be pants cutters, college professors or margarine magnates, but they can run for Vice President, discover vaccines, smash the atom, teach Latin, or, in the Mitty manner, dream violently of heroic adventure...
Final Triumph. Even such heroic action did not make the Viking1 fly until May 3. When it did, its power shut off pre maturely, and it rose only 50 miles, instead of the expected 100 miles or more...
...will set some of Italy's top singers (Fedora Barbieri, Giuseppe Di Stefano, Mario Del Monaco) in heroic operatic surroundings...
...purely local matter, left in the hands of the bishop. In the Roman Catholic Church, bishops lost this right in 1634, a century after the Reformation.* It would be wise and welcome, thought Bishop Welles, to revive this practice, and he suggested a commission to study the "heroic sanctity" of two Missouri candidates for canonization...
...face of threats of violence and civil disorder, the Supreme Court Justices hand down an equivocal decree, their action will be understandable. But with a forthright proclamation, history is more likely to award them a heroic niche...