Word: heroisms
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...Heroism and sacrifice sprouted richly in the green mountains of Yugoslavia. With them the tares of pain, hunger and disease grew too. They maimed men's bodies and spirits, crippled Marshal Tito's guerrilla army. Last week, from two firsthand reports, direct word of this suffering came to the Allies...
...over-heroism of Mr. Penn, his challenging decisions to give up his high position in society and devote his time to his "brothers," however high the sentiment, set the audience in laughs. Melodramatic, too saintly for belief, the picture was one of those in which there wasn't a louse...
...plaque is in memory of 'the valiant dead and 68 missing' of an amphibious tractor battalion. Another commemorates the heroism of the officers and men of the Special Weapons Unit...
...much third-act gunfire and goo not only mar an otherwise enjoyable play; they also keep it from meaning anything. Jacobowsky should have grasped how gaiety in the face of annihilation can create, as it seldom did here, its own kind of pathos and heroism...
...Navy had been more generous with the top-ranking Congressional Medal of Honor (43 awards', including 14 to Marines, one to a Coast Guardsman, against the Army's 32). > Eight out of nine Army awards were D.F.C.s and Air Medals for flyers. Regardless of any heroism or merit involved, an Air Medal is usually awarded for five combat flights; an oakleaf cluster for each additional five. Result: 40,585 Air Medals, plus 58,596 clusters, accounted for four-fifths of the Army tinsel factory output...