Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...heroic and poignant performance. He continued to make a pretense of tending to his Senate duties. On the day he announced his retirement from the majority leadership, exhausted and scrawny-looking and badly in need of a haircut, he excused himself to a visitor in his Senate office and dragged himself out on crutches to take Martha Taft to a promised garden party. After an exploratory operation, he hobbled around the room to show a friend from Washington how much he had improved. He did believe, until near the end, that he might have a chance. "I'm going...
...kind of responsibility that Winston Churchill in World War I ascribed to Admiral Jellicoe. commander of the British Grand Fleet: "The only man on either side who could lose the war in an afternoon." In that sense, Allen Dulles has the most important mission in the long, sordid, heroic and colorful history of the intelligence services. This scholarly, hearty, pipe-smoking lawyer is in strange contrast to some of his famous predecessors in intelligence history...
...which Deane was a member. They were shuttled from camp to camp, death-marched, frozen, starved. Old men and women were ruthlessly liquidated. Mother Superior Beatrice of the Order of St. Paul was shot when she could not go on. She was 77. Salvation Army Commissioner Lord, a heroic figure in Deane's book, wrote her "death certificate" with a pistol at his head: "From heart failure...
...Bogotá, Eisenhower brought White House greetings to Colombia's popular President Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, newly installed in office after last month's army coup. "I want my first words in Colombia," said Eisenhower, "to be a tribute to the courage displayed in action by the heroic Colombian soldiers in Korea." Proud that his countrymen are the only Latin Americans fighting for the U.N., General Rojas said that they would stay as long as needed...
Pinups in Palaces. Among the most notable items in the show: a heroic Judith and Holofernes by Rubens, a precise and touching portrait of a half-nude woman by Rembrandt, a vicious Hogarth called The Reward of Cruelty, which shows the dissection of a murderer's corpse in gruesome detail. The exhibit also shows that, once they had learned their anatomy, many artists proceeded to paint the human form not as it was but as they thought it ought to be. The Fontainebleau school (started in the 16th century) created elegant cheesecake pinups of an elongated grace, their charms...