Word: heroic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spread. By Eleanor's alliance the Plantagenet adventure was loosed on Europe, France and Britain were pounded into dusty poverty under half a century of campaigns, the feudal system itself was staggered. Yet, also, the sweet Provengal culture was spread like honey over Britain, and three sun-washed, heroic figures rose for a long moment against the Dark Ages. They were the three great Plantagenets: Henry II, Eleanor, and their son Richard the Lion Heart. The greatest of them was Eleanor herself, though centuries passed before the world realized...
...friend of Pumpton's and cloped 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 O. Marshall, who, to Plumpton'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...
...former Western allies who in Munich . . . weakened and destroyed our defenses . . . Therefore, we cannot believe that the Western capitalist states were at all concerned with our liberty and independence. If anyone fought for our freedom, really defeated and drove out the German invaders, it was solely the heroic Soviet army." Then, on behalf of the workers of the Skoda plant, Zapotocky presented a locomotive to a Russian delegation as a gift to "our beloved Stalin...
Seeds of Chaos. As the days passed, the city wondered what to think. To the Communist Daily Worker, the strike was a "heroic" demonstration. To the Scripps-Howard World-Telegram & the Sun, the students were sowing the seeds of "chaos." Superintendent of Schools William Jansen said that the strikers could not be "condemned too severely." The New York Post claimed that the officials were taking it all too seriously. Mayor O'Dwyer was plainly exasperated. He threatened to cancel the $7,000,000 appropriation, demanded that the Board of Education start a complete investigation...
...Less heroic jobs for the Vidicon may be even more useful. An array of the tubes can watch all the aisles of a factory for the plant manager. They can help store detectives keep multiple eyes on shoplifters. One watchman equipped with Vidicons can watch simultaneously many parts of his territory...