Word: heroisms
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...force his way past. Ruddy-faced Marshal McShane, 53, is a formidable man. He won the Golden Gloves welterweight championship of New York City back in 1930, and he has since added many pounds of solid flesh. He is also a brave man who won several citations for heroism during his years as a New York cop. But he was outnumbered 20 to 1 by the troopers, some of them pretty husky too, and his scufflings with them were utterly futile, merely adding a dash of absurdity to the proceedings...
...Durie was 30, separated and soon to be divorced from Desloge. The two were linked romantically in at least one society column. Wrote the New York World-Telegram's Charles Ventura on Jan. 20, 1947: "Jack (John F.) Kennedy, who won the Navy's highest award for heroism by swimming through a sea of flame to rescue two of his PT boat crew, has just been voted another outstanding decoration. Palm Beach's cottage colony wants to give [him] its annual Oscar for achievement in the field of romance . . . giving Durie Malcolm Desloge the season...
...first anniversary of the Great Wall passes, it still stands as a monument to freedom and heroism instead of the symbol of slavery the East German Communists meant...
...thing, the hero's heroism looks less heroic every minute. No doubt he was moved by a generous impulse when he offered to rescue the President; but he was also moved by a merely conventional sympathy for the underdog, by a sentimental horror of violence, by a hysterical temptation to escape from his miserable self. What's more, an admirable act has not made him admirable; he is still silly and incompetent, and when he isn't barking at her mechanically he still wriggles with lap-dogged devotion for the bitch he is tied...
...this first full-scale history of the Korean war, former Marine Robert Leckie dramatically reconstructs the bloody, bitter battles of a frustrating war. He brings alive the shock of the North Korean invasion, the "bugouts" of terrified G.I.s, the blare of Chinese bugles in the night, the quiet heroism of soldiers and marines dying on nameless hillsides in an alien land. Like many another marine. Leckie has a low opinion of General Douglas MacArthur, whom he charges with making a fatal mistake in splitting his forces for the dash to the Yalu River. Result was the disastrous rout...