Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...many of you will recall, we have had a great variety of covers for our Christmas issues. They have included Norway's heroic Lutheran Bishop Eivind Berggrav, who at the time (1944) was a defiant and solitary prisoner of the Nazis; Marian Anderson, around whose life and career TIME'S editors told the story of the Negro spiritual; and the late Lieut. General Lesley McNair, who as chief of Army Ground Forces in 1942 was responsible for providing some measure of Christmas cheer to 3,000,000 G.I.s...
...Exposed to relentless hostile fire," he read, "[Chambers] coolly reorganized his battle-weary men, inspiring them to heroic efforts by his own valor and leading them in an attack on the critical, impregnable high ground from which the enemy was pouring an increasing volume of fire . . ." For eight hours on that Feb. 19, 1945, Jumping Joe had concentrated a lifetime's cunning, shrewdness and bravery on silencing the murderous Japanese guns, had finally been carried away under fire, blasted by an enemy machine gun. His was the 431st Medal of Honor of World War II, the Both...
...farmhouse. As the Germans closed in, Fox phoned for artillery fire directly on the building. An astonished artilleryman phoned back: "Is it safe to fire?" Said Fox: "Fire it. There's more of them than there are of us." After the Germans were beaten back, the bodies of heroic Infantryman Fox and his men were found in the demolished farmhouse...
...night, the audience in San Francisco's opera house found huge (6 ft. 2 in., 220 Ibs.) and handsome Tenor Vinay visually, if not vocally, a heroic match for Soprano Kirsten Flagstad. Wrote San Francisco Chronicle Critic Alfred Frankenstein: "To be sure, [Vinay] did not bring the music all the suppleness and vocal ease one hoped for, but he brought it something else that was almost equally important-a tenderness, lyricism and fragility of expression that were altogether unprecedented. For once, Tristan's ravings in the third act seemed only five times too long instead...
...completely disregarding her own personal safety, voluntarily assisted by administering blood plasma to the many wounded as they were carried into the temporary Aid Station [which] was subjected to small arms fire through, out the attack . . . The Regimental Combat Team considers Miss Higgins' actions on that day as heroic ... in saving the lives of many grievously wounded...