Word: heroisms
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...longer any security, and justice has come to be a thing of the past. If the Church is accused of disrupting the unity of a nation, the reply must be that the secret police is disrupting that unity in a way which concerns all Christians." He praised the heroism of imprisoned Protestant Pastor Niemöller, saying that Catholics and Protestants alike respected him and that he could not possibly be regarded as an enemy of the people though Nazis treated...
Every nation in wartime derives inspiration from its own peculiar tales of heroism. Some are legend, some are fact. Legend or fact, a tale was told by the Chinese last week of Chen Chung-chu, a guerrilla leader in the never-never land of North China behind the Japanese lines...
...Poles! The heroism of your people standing up to the cruel oppressors, the courage of your soldiers, sailors, airmen shall not be forgotten. Your country shall live again and resume its rightful part in the new organization of Europe...
There were signs that the strain was beginning to tell. A German spokesman paid tribute to the "heroism" of German civilians, admitted that there were some "heavily bombed towns in western and northern Germany," and, somewhat tardily, considering the record of the Luftwaffe, remarked: "All this bombing of civilians could have been avoided by really humane warfare...
...picture of trench warfare, but a story of an American country boy and how he came to fight for his country. So much of the film is given to the painstaking development of his character that his heroic feat, when it comes, is merely an extension of the everyday heroism of a dignified, impoverished mountain people...