Word: heroic
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...patriotism. Navy bands let loose. Under a budding tree, three little girls bedded down for a nap beneath an unfurled American flag. Lieut. Shane Osborn, the pilot who brought the crippled plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...
...protect their own space. China's version has been, I think, more ham-fisted, because it has greater control over its media. But there are similarities between the Chinese portrayals of the martyr Wang Wei and U.S. portrayals of its air crew, which is also presented as heroic...
...quasi-heroic, flag-draped welcome, and the way that U.S. diplomacy throughout the last few weeks treated “getting our people home” as its primary imperative, points to a peculiar and even dangerous trend in the way we, the world’s sole great power, conduct ourselves in foreign affairs. Whether it be in Bosnia, Somalia or now the South China Sea, there seems to be nothing so important to our policymakers as the terrifying worry that maybe, somehow, American soldiers might lose their lives overseas. First in the Clinton years, and now under Bush...
Even before J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter, British writer Brian Jacques (pronounced Jakes) was selling millions of 400-page books to spellbound children and parents. His 14-book Redwall series, featuring heroic medieval rabbits and mice battling evil rats, has more than 5 million books in print. Jacques, 61, hosts an animated public television series based on Redwall that begins airing in the U.S. this month, and has a new, eagerly awaited book, Castaways of the Flying Dutchman, which chronicles the stirring adventures of young Ben and Ned, his faithful black Labrador. TIME spent a morning with Jacques...
...patriotism. Navy bands let loose. Under a budding tree, three little girls bedded down for a nap beneath an unfurled American flag. Lieut. Shane Osborn, the pilot who brought the crippled plane safely down, touched a tear from his eye as he walked off the plane and into a heroic cacophony of cheers and music. But he was all smiles as he wrapped his arms around his girlfriend Roxanne Faustino and spun her around in a gesture as old as combat itself...