Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Whatever her faults, the U.S. is today playing a truly heroic role in history. Never before has a single nation tried to repair the war damages of many countries. Manning an industrial machine that admits no limits, the country holds out to the world a promise of better things and better living...
...Senate for failing to pass Civil Rights legislation, said bluntly: "I can never be fully relaxed in Atlanta, fine city that it is ... since I abhorracial prejudice and its evil end products, discrimination and segregation. I can find more than enough of that far to the north . . . Among those heroic men fighting for the freedom of all of us in Korea are many American Negroes. But not one of these Negro heroes, even if he wore the Medal of Honor, could rent a hotel room in Atlanta. Yet any non-Negro, even if he were a deserter, a traitor...
...While this general flew back to Paris to bury his heroic son, Viet Minh forces...
Last week, after nine months in Korea, weather-beaten Chesty Puller, 52, assistant commander of the ist Division, veteran of the Inchon landing and the Marines' heroic retreat from the Changjin Reservoir, was back in the U.S. to take over a training command...
...friend of Pumpton's and eloped with him after getting drunk at the Senior Spread. Far from being puerile, the Class Week of 1947 produced the first enunciation of the European Recovery Plan by General George C. Marshall, who, to Pumpton's mind, was the first statesman of heroic stature to appear since Bismarck. And in a frantic attempt to flee Cambridge, Pumpton piled up his roommate's Buick on the Worcester Turnpike and spent the summer in Stillman Infirmary. The bill, including repairs to the Buick...