Word: heroisms
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...this one would probably take time: after all, Monsieur Ducreux was a member of the executive committee of Herriot's own Radical Socialist Party. Herriot started off in style: he limned the pastoral beauties of the Vosges countryside where Ducreux came from, and recalled its people's heroism during the Franco-Prussian War. But then, after effusive condolences to the deputy's family, he unexpectedly finished. The house sat down with murmurs of relief; the eulogy had been mercifully short...
...most fathers, the Army's letter would have brought pride. To 65-year-old Halsey McGovern, a Washington, D.C. transportation consultant, it brought only anger. He said that he 1) would not accept the honors because he did not believe in medals for heroism, 2) disliked the way President Harry Truman was running the country. He wanted no part of the decorations "if it infers that Truman is a proper party to honor these boys and other boys who died over there...
...small vanities: uniforms tailored by Lanvin, an insistence on low-numbered license plates. Général de Théátre the cynics called him, but if De Lattre's triumphs were invariably spectacular, it was simply because he saw no reason why heroism and high purpose should be hidden under a hypocritical bushel of false modesty...
...very much surprised at all the commotion about Captain Carlsen. It was his duty to stay with his ship and he did it. Is it so rare nowadays that a man do his duty that he should be treated as a hero in acknowledgement? Acts of heroism happen every day on a much higher level where men risk their lives to save others and remain for the most part unknown. After all, Captain Carlsen only tried to save a ship and the few hundred thousand dollars worth of cargo it was carrying. And I fail to see what else...
...This great epic," said Albion, "is in the great tradition of the sea and will undoubtedly crop up time and again whenever men recall the outstanding cases of maritime heroism...