Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...course, it has occasional relapses. People make oblique references to the Lieutenant's heroic conduct at the "Canal" and about the guy "he pulled out of the drink at Tarawa." But the Lieutenant is too tough to own up to these exploits; in addition, he has a case of psychological migraine which would put a lesser man back in street clothes. The Lieutenant is the hero, and there is not a man in the audience who would not be proud to serve under...
...once wrote you about Colonel John H. ("Mike") Michaelis reading a copy of TIME while he waited for the Air Force to blast Red concentrations then attacking his heroic 27th Regiment (TIME, Oct. 16). Two weeks ago I told you about the many letters we get from TIME-reading G.I.s and officers in combat. But John Warren Smith insists that there is "no need to go to distant lands to find people reading TIME under hardships." A former Columbia University graduate student, 22-year-old Private Smith sent me the following story to prove his point...
Perhap , the most significant reaction came in the frequent references readers made to other hard-and heroic-days in the nation's tradition...
Cervantes' heroic determination helped Christendom to win one of history's decisive battles; it also got him three musket wounds, and one of them made his left arm useless for life. Later, on his way back to Spain, Moorish pirates captured him and held him for ransom in Algiers...
...experience from the fiction with which he embroidered it. The result, while rich in surmise, is a little thin as biography. After reading Cervantes, those who would like to know its subject better are likely to find themselves right back where they startedstaring into the sad, heroic face of the mad knight who called windmills his enemies and wore a barber's basin as a helmet...