Word: heroisms
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...earth, all of us, do thank you, our astronauts, for your marvelous message, your outstanding example of heroism and humility, your perfect teamwork along with thousands of fellow Americans. You will lead today's youth out of the morass of self-pity and destruction, you will teach the new generation the world over to follow on the road of selfdiscipline, hard work and heroic achievement that is the behavior of a true American citizen...
...wanted to see the orders issued to Pueblo's skipper, Commander Lloyd M. Bucher. "These men are being hailed as heroes," he added. "They are heroes in the sense that they survived the imprisonment. But they did sign a great many statements that did not reflect any great heroism in my mind. I'll have to investigate further to see just what hero-type things they performed...
...Pueblo were heroes, their kind of "heroism" was the most elemental--mere physical survival of the Korean captivity. If that was cause for celebration, what it showed to the rest of America was net. The men had to endure only because of the utter futility of America's efforts at releasing them...
...Biafran, for defending his freedom against impossible odds, demonstrating that the conscience of the world is a figment of some blind optimist's imagination, and for showing the rest of us heroism and determination equal to anything since the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans...
Temple Drake--her friends call her Tempie--came reluctantly to her sudden heroism. She really would have preferred just to endure, stoically accepting the hardships and indignities of Band life, certain in the knowledge that her agony ultimately would end. But her conscience would not let her. She began to lose sleep and weight and she was put on the Undesirable List at the Deke House...