Word: heroically
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started painting symbols into our covers to help our readers recognize our man of the week more easily and to give them a clue as to why we had chosen him. Perhaps you remember the cover with which this idea really got started-the Christmas cover of the heroic German pastor Martin Niemoller, with the swastika and a Nazi prison camp scene on one side and the Cross and the Nativity on the other...
...Inefficient transportation, idle factories, high taxes, famine. Material conditions and morale of the people went down each year. "The Government propaganda authorities had to withdraw the posters showing Franco in a heroic pose, with arms crossed over his chest. ... To stand with arms folded is the symbol of unemployment in Spain, and too many disillusioned Spaniards had scrawled over the poster...
...Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor to Major General Alexander Archer Vandegrift of the Marine Corps, for "outstanding and heroic accomplishment" as commander of the Solomon Islands forces...
...holding out for three weeks after their ultimate doom was sealed they prevented all the Red Armies in the south from striking in unison. Said Berlin: "The conclusion of this military venture supplies the epilogue to a military undertaking whose history will be written with the blood of heroic fighters...
...clothing and fuel chugged across a nine-mile corridor of destruction into Leningrad last week. The corridor had once bristled with steel and concrete pillboxes; it had been manned by crack German troops. Now it was littered with German dead (13,000 by Russian accounts) and dead thousands of heroic Reds who had lifted the siege of Russia's second city...