Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...human pusillanimity, stupidity, and cupidity, culled throughout the world by an impressively multifarious staff. . . . But the one truly great event of the week-indeed, of the entire postwar period so far-is not even mentioned. I refer, of course, to the magnificent gesture of the survivors of the heroic Underground of Crete . . . who, by refusing Allied compensations almost to a man, gave to us all the privilege of holding our heads a little higher...
Nurnberg's impresarios had used simpler furnishings, relied on the majesty of the concept to set the tone. The German production had a touch of Wagner - elaborate vaunting of guilt, protestations of heroic innocence. Tokyo's had the flavor of Gilbert & Sullivan...
...national pastime was once more its old half-heroic, half-comic self...
...wearer of the Old School. Tie but a tough professional soldier, he won the Victoria Cross in World War I for directing from a stretcher an attack across the Canal du Nord near Cambrai. In World War II he led the British in one of their finest hours (the heroic retreat from Dunkirk), held Malta through the racking bombing of 1942. A soldier on the Dunkirk beach recalled the brash bravery of the B.E.F. Commander: "Capless, his head cocked, he watched the dive bombers. Then he dashed toward a machine gun mounted on a tripod, and single-handed took them...
This week Major John Weir Foote, heroic "Padre X," who won a Victoria Cross at Dieppe (TIME, Feb. 25) was to sail from Halifax on a special mission: he would take the bones back with him to France, see them ceremoniously buried in a cemetery near Falaise. Said an official statement...