Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...considers himself a man of the world: "Moscow is heroic," he will remark, jocosely, "but Paris is the joy of living." Ho Chi Minh is a kindly man, it seems, who calls his associates "Little Brother," while they call him "Uncle Ho." Yet Uncle Ho, it also seems, keeps his favorite Swallow's Nest-a rare and expensive delicacy made from the saliva of sea swallows-in his room so that he will not have to share it; he keeps Philip Morrises in one pocket for himself and passes poor local cigarettes from another...
...Like the heroic little Dutch boy, college administrators are trying to stop a flood by putting their fingers in a dike. Ever-increasing numbers of secondary school students are submitting ever greater numbers of applications to two, three, or eight different colleges, thus creating the massive Problem of Multiple Applications...
...visit, Mohammed Ali plans to make a dozen talks, to see Old Faithful and Mt. Rushmore's heroic sculptures, and to get a medical checkup, a Columbia honorary degree and a tribal welcome from the Blackfeet Indians. This week in Washington he will confer with President Eisenhower on "matters of mutual interest." This month the U.S. plans to send Pakistan its first arms shipment under the new mutual-aid pact...
...crushed-rock voice named Parker McCormick. Miss McCormick plays one of Graham's discarded loves and while she perhaps wouldn't wear well, her few minutes save Act II. Since this act also contains those painful episodes when the play becomes preachy, Miss McCormick's achievement takes on heroic proportions...
Reach for the Sky, by Paul Brickhill. The heroic story of a legless R.A.F. ace who destroyed 22½ enemy planes, kept his German captors busy recapturing him (TIME...