Word: heroicizes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...kind of hot Indiana hot weather that sends the family dog scrooching under the pickup truck to enjoy the shade. But in South Bend, on the Notre Dame and St. Mary's College campuses, heroic athletes from 70 countries were running and jumping and laughing from the sheer joy of it all. No, these were not the Pan American Games, which were to start a few days later, downstate at Indianapolis. The competitors there, everyone knew, would run faster and jump higher. But not happier; world happiness records were being set here at the Seventh International Summer Special Olympics...
...many code names that Lieut. Colonel Oliver North attracted during the Iran-contra affair ranged from the heroic "Good" to the cryptic "B.G." (for "Blood and Guts") to the macho "Steel Hammer." But the most significant, and bizarre, could turn out to be "Belly Button." That improbable monicker was the name for a Swiss bank account containing $200,000 in Iran-arms profits that were set aside for the former National Security Council aide and his family...
...untested man was being entrusted with the fate of the dollar, the course of U.S. interest rates and quite possibly the prosperity of the world economy. The change was all the more dramatic because it removed from the scene a commanding figure who in eight years has earned a heroic reputation and the profound trust of the international financial community as the world's foremost inflation fighter and its top central banker...
...union has been giving its own plaudits,running a "police honor roll" in The Crimson forthe past two weeks, heralding the heroic acts forwhich the officers were honored...
someday you'll call heroic deeds...