Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...future histories, our industrial leaders will stand forth as the great builders of our industrial might . . . Coming historians will realize that this era ... is one of the great hours in the history of the U.S. and English-speaking peoples, and may be invested with the heroic radiance of the Elizabethan period or the Age of Pitt...
...greater safety, then manned a machine gun and blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. Admiral Chester W. Nimitz pinned a Navy Cross on Miller in 1942 for ''distinguished devotion to duty, extraordinary courage and disregard of his own personal safety." Two years later, heroic Doric Miller was lost...
...some 4,000 people who wrote to Joey after TIME told her story (July 19, 1948), you remember her heroic work as an underground agent in the Japanese-run Philippines. She smuggled food, medicine and messages to U.S. prisoners of war, mapped enemy fortifications for the Air Force, once walked 56 miles through lines of trigger-happy sentries to report a mine field where the 37th Division was scheduled to attack Manila. Though she took many long chances, the Japanese never caught up with her because they were always afraid to search her; through her ragged blouse they could...
...Governor's Island in New York Harbor, Eleanor B. Roosevelt, widow of Brigadier General Theodore Roosevelt Jr., accepted a Bronze Star medal in recognition of her husband's "heroic action" at Les Andalouses, Algeria, in 1942, when a patrol under his command fought off a superior enemy force. This award made the eldest son of T.R. the winner of every Army combat medal given by the U.S. Government, including a World War I Distinguished Service Cross, the Silver Star with clusters, the Purple Heart, and a World War II posthumous Medal of Honor for action at Normandy, where...
...least appreciated of the great Americans," she decided to build him an eye-catching memorial. To this end she set aside $1,000,000 of the fortune her father, Ebenezer Buckingham, had made in banking and grain elevators. Before her death in 1937, Kate commissioned a heroic statue of Hamilton from Sculptor John Angel, and was considering as its setting a monumental eye catcher, designed by Finnish Architect Eliel Saarinen, with four 80-ft. fluted granite pillars topped by huge bronze discs...