Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like a fresh wind blowing in from the sea, the campaign spread over Europe. V, which stood for victory in English and victoire in French, became vryheid (freedom) in Dutch, vitezstvi (victory) in Czech, vitestvo (heroism) in Serbian, and in Norwegian ve vil vinne, which means just what it sounds like in pidgin English...
...Government filled its brave people full of tales of Russian heroism and held out no false promises of military aid from Britain or the U.S. The papers dropped dialectics, merely talked of the "fatherland's war" against foreign invaders...
...William Yandell Elliott, a stop-and-go signal for personal heroism. . . in his frequent crossings of Harvard Square...
Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year-a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part missionaries have played in the struggle. But no amount of missionary heroism could have revived Christianity so quickly if Chinese nationalism had not done a complete about-face in its reaction to the white man's religion...
...years ago, with Attorney David Levinson, he went to New Mexico to fight for ten miners who were facing a charge of murdering a sheriff. He and Levinson were kidnapped, carried into the desert and beaten. From that adventure Minor returned a Communist hero. He kept his heroism green by fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil...