Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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MEXICO Homicidal Hero When a killer is captured in Mexico, corridas (streetcorner ballads) often glamorize him in heroic verse. Last week Mexicans sang a new corrida,. It was about El Gitano ("The Gypsy"), suspected of assassinating the Governor of Sinaloa, bearded, music-loving Rodolfo T. Loaiza...
...Haddon goes on his troubled rounds, his lady frets over their son Peter, in love with a friend's wife. Daughter Pearl is forced to choose between a German flyer and a nice American sergeant. Author Gibbs deftly solves the problems, or sends insoluble characters off to heroic death...
Those few were the men who had been with MacArthur through those days of heroic humiliation when the Japanese hordes were driving him back step by step from Lingayen to Manila to Bataan-and who somehow, like him, had gotten away from the Philippines to join him on the long road back...
...inches taller than Napoleon. But most Americans discovered this fact (to their surprise) only after the Teheran conference. For some 20 years before that, Americans had known Stalin chiefly from a few carefully posed photographs which made him look tall, and from Soviet statues and paintings which were invariably heroic. To the western world Stalin was chiefly a face and a focus for disturbing rumors...
...farms, to complete the socializing of her economy. To do this, she also wanted a $6,000,000,000 credit which she last week asked the U.S. Government to extend her on a long-term basis at low interest. What would she give in exchange? The graves of her heroic dead? If so, it was no deal, since bargains are made for the future, not for the past. A just and durable peace? If so, how did Russia propose to render it just...