Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Doolittle raid on Tokyo, it will reopen arguments of what was gained, what lost, by that bold adventure. Captain Lawson's book will not settle the dispute. Readers may feel, however, that it settles more important matters. It leaves no doubt about the fighting, tough, quietly heroic qualities of U.S. flyers; even less doubt that the Chinese are a unique, agelessly wise, able and benevolent people...
...York Timesman Cyrus Sulzberger reported from Moscow that the Nazis are using Russian Orthodox prelates in Occupied Russia, that the clerics set up an autonomous church, have expressed "admiration" for Adolf Hitler's "heroic struggle," pray "to the All Highest to bless Axis arms with victory." In unoccupied Russia the loyal church denounced the schism, promised expulsion of the renegades...
...pressing against the western suburbs and the U.S. was not yet in the war, Sir Walter went again to Moscow. He went with a smile, but his hosts remembered and they were chilly. Back in London, he found the faces of the resisting Russians unforgettable. He wrote of the heroic Red Army, the magnificent sacrifices...
...Moscow last week it seemed fitting to the Union of Polish Patriots to name a division for Kosciuszko. The division was to fight beside "the heroic Red Army against the German invaders ... for the restoration of a free, independent and strong Poland." Union President Wanda Wasilewska, wife of a vice commissar for Foreign Affairs, Alexander Korneichuk, and an indefatigable writer, wrote to Premier Joseph Stalin: "The Poles in the U.S.S.R. are deeply convinced that consolidation of Polish-Soviet friendship [is] essential to Polish national interests." Rumbled Stalin in reply: "Thanks. . . . The Soviet Union will do everything possible to cement...
...graveside is dedicated by extemporaneous prayer. Lieut. Francis W. Read, an Episcopalian from Glendale, Calif., and Lieut. Clarence J. Merriman, a heroic Baptist of Shawnee, Okla., who has been under fire as much as any soldier, alternate in reading the committal service...