Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Coming from the man whom Laborites dubbed a warmonger, such disappointing news was a far cry from the heroic scorn and we-can-do-it-better of Tory electioneering. Churchill made his speech in flat, conciliatory language, without any suggestion that the Socialists were to blame. Thus, what had been regarded as Labor's excuse for failure was now accepted as fact. Britain will be short of 1,500,000 tons of steel in 1952. Coal production will be about 5,000,000 tons short. There are at least 500,000 jobs waiting to be filled. Gloomy Treasury experts...
...ways, the most magnificent show of the season was the one displayed at Wildenstein & Co. To celebrate the firm's soth year in the U.S., Wildenstein's borrowed back 62 of the masterpieces the gallery had sold to U.S. museums and collectors. Among them: Titian's heroic Man with the Falcon, Watteau's romantic The Mezzetin and Cezanne's spacious Chestnut Trees at the Jas de Bouffon...
...slicked road toward Mount Ida, two trucks overturned. Nine beasts scampered into Ouachita National Forest. A pursuing posse brought down one of two escaped leopards and recaptured a tame black bear and a rhesus monkey. The other leopard prowled all night before being tracked down by a small but heroic cur named Tony, whose owner, Roiston Fair, shot the leopard, but not before it had killed Tony. Still in the forest: a polar bear, a black bear, three monkeys...
...South Africa, Eric Rowan is as heroic a figure as Joe DiMaggio or Babe Ruth is in the U.S. Playing cricket against England last summer, Rowan, vice captain of his team and opening batsman, scored 236 runs, highest individual score any South African player ever made in a test match. But later, at Old Trafford, the Manchester cricket ground, Rowan made a different kind of sensation. When the crowd decided, he was "stonewalling" (i.e., batting a wholly defensive game), it gave him cricket's equivalent of a Bronx cheer-slow, rhythmic handclaps. Infuriated, Rowan sat down on the "pitch...
...Randall peered down, the crowd began yelling, "Don't jump! Don't jump!" She stood there in the increasing heat in a long cotton housecoat and a pair of men's shoes and hopped from one foot to the other, frightened, ludicrous and heroic at once. A neighbor rushed up with an extension ladder, got it against the side of the building and started up. Then thick smoke and flame burst out of the windows below the woman. It drove the man off the ladder and enveloped her. She sank to the ledge and lay still...