Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Though his art was lofty, Turner made no pretensions of being so. A barber's son, he scorned society, saved his money, kept his own counsel, and downed his liquor in heroic quantity. He had a big house on Queen Anne Street where he lived with his favorite paintings, and a hideaway on the Thames where he lived with his favorite woman (they were known in the neighborhood as Captain and Mrs. Booth...
...Nose Toward Mecca. These are only a few of the stories of U.S. subs. Battle Submerged and Sink 'Em All are crammed with more, blending the heroic and the ironic. They tell of how Pharmacist's Mate Wheeler B. Lipes of the Seadragon performed the first submerged appendectomy, a success "with the help of God and a long-handled spoon"; of how the Barb's commandos landed in Japan and blew up a train; of how the Sargo heartbreakingly fired 13 torpedoes at fat targets, only to have all 13 prove duds (flaws in the exploder mechanism...
...Mortar shells crashed alongside, machine-gun bullets stitched a pattern against its sides. Corporal Elmore rallied his panic-stricken passengers, delivered them to the beachhead, and went back for more. On his last trip, Corporal Elmore was mortally hit. He got the Bronze Star Medal-posthumously-an award for "heroic achievement" not deemed to be of sufficient degree to merit a Distinguished Service Cross or a Silver Star...
...Dorchester went down 25 minutes later in a rumble of steam; some 600 men were lost, but the heroic chaplains had helped save over 200. The last anyone saw of them, they were standing on the slanting deck, their arms linked, in prayer...
Last week President Truman went up to Philadelphia to speak at the opening of a $300,000, all-faiths chapel dedicated to their memory. The President was escorted by Dr. Daniel A. Poling, chaplain of the chapel and father of one of the heroic four.* His voice echoing through the limestone archways, Harry Truman spoke with unconcealed emotion...