Word: heroics
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...OBSERVATION THAT "PERHAPS THE Serbs were bad guys but the Bosnian Muslims did their part in the bloody business of the week'' reminded me of Voltaire's account of Candide's war experience [after seeing the destruction in a village belonging to the Abares who had heroically resisted atrocities carried out by the Bulgarians]: "Candide made all the haste he could to another village, which belonged to the Bulgarians, and there he found that the heroic Abares had enacted the same tragedy.'' This great work of 1759 satire might have been fiction, but current news items reveal the same facts...
...mourning the loss of a champion of an enduring idea," Lebwohl said. "It was not easy for Rabin to sign the treaty, but that he said 'enough of blood and tears' and was able to shake the hand that nobody wanted to shake...is what made him heroic...
Rabin had always been a dedicated servant of the Israeli state. As a soldier, he first gained experience and fame during Israel's fight for independence in the 1940s; he later became the heroic leader of Israel's military successes against its hostile neighbors in the wake of the Six-Day War in 1967. But as a politician, Rabin became a staunch advocate of peace with the Palestinian people, eschewing violent conflict...
...thought I'd just play one game, and then my body would be too broken to go on. I thought it'd be heroic, you know, to say that I'd played rugby once for Radcliffe...
...reviving the labor movement in America will take a heroic effort, no matter who wins. Beset by corporate downsizing and increasingly harsh union-busting tactics, labor has seen its share of the U.S. work force shrink from about 35% in the mid-1960s to just 15% today. The diminished unions have been powerless to lift the wages of the average worker, which have shown virtually no growth for the past two decades after adjusting for inflation, even as productivity and corporate profits have soared...