Word: heroisms
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...less a dignitary than the Vatican's Jean Cardinal Danielou, who said that the idea "does not shock me." How about the miracles normally required for canonization? Merely an innovation of modern times, said Danielou. More important was the ability "to practice virtues with a certain degree of heroism." In any case there was no particular hurry. Joan of Arc did not make it for 489 years...
...smaller force of Jordanian armor whose vehicles carried the black, white, green and red Hashemite flag along with pictures of the King. Hussein's order to his troops, the best in the Arab world, was to "stand fast and teach the heretic leaders of Syria a lesson in heroism." His 40th and 60th armored brigades did just that. First they blunted the Syrian invasion by knocking out 40 tanks. In an armored tactic known as "the loop," the 40th hit the Syrians head-on while the 60th rolled around their flank. Operating with precision, the two brigades were also...
...utmost attention to raising the political, cultural and vocational standard of the women, in view of their merits in the struggle against U.S. aggression, for national salvation. To develop the Vietnamese women's traditions of heroism, dauntlessness, fidelity and ability to shoulder responsibilities...
Courage in battle has fascinated writers from Homer to Hemingway, precisely because it contained a human mystery, an almost perverse will to rise to impossible occasions. Perhaps no modern army can rely upon the mysteries of heroism. But there is something odd and poignant in a bureaucracy spending $700,000 to try to make the fear of death manageable...
Once, the U.S. tried to make it so. The alternative was an invitation missed-an invitation to moral heroism and political imagination-and an opportunity forever lost. Yet tragic errors can be the beginnings of new maturity. It may be no coincidence that since Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Americans seem to have discerned a dimension of tragedy in their lives, have been more willing to admit their faults, more able to examine the darker side of their actions...