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Word: heroic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Busman Charles Henry Darke, conductor on London's No. 60 bus route from Colindale to Old Ford and a faithful Communist for 18 of his 42 years, is a Communist no longer. The heroic stand of Britain's Gloucestershire Regiment against the Communists in Korea (TIME, May 7) had set him to thinking. Said he to newsmen last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: COMMUNISTS: Defections | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...national fame led through Chicago and Paris. In Chicago he attended the Art Institute, worked part time as an apprentice in a local sculptor's studio. The neoclassic splendor of the Chicago World's Fair of 1893, with its acres of white buildings and heroic statues, fired Eraser's desire to go to Paris: "It was the most inspiring moment possible for a young artist...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Gold-Medal Sculptor | 5/28/1951 | See Source »

...Long live the great people of China, the freedom-loving people of Korea . . . American tanks and British cruisers can't put us down . . .' Then the May Day chairman, a strike leader from the southern oilfields, stepped to the microphone and shouted: 'We greet the heroic nations of the U.S.S.R. who are at the helm of the democratic front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: You Don't Do That | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

...platform before a light-blue backdrop on which was painted one-half of the world (minus the Western Hemisphere), the speaker shouted the same words again, and once more the crowd broke into a high frenzy. Three times more he shouted the same words, greetings to the 'heroic nations of the U.S.S.R.,' and each time the crowd nearly blasted him from the platform...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE NATIONS: You Don't Do That | 5/14/1951 | See Source »

Died. Charles Keck, 75, onetime assistant to Sculptor Augustus St. Gaudens, and heir to his heroic style; of a heart ailment; in Carmel, N.Y. Among his best-known statues: Father Duffy, a Times Square fixture; Lewis & Clark, in Charlottesville, Va.; Huey Long, in Baton Rouge, La.; Andrew Jackson, in Kansas City, commissioned by Jackson County's Presiding Judge Harry S. Truman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, may 7, 1951 | 5/7/1951 | See Source »

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