Word: heroisms
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...those few hours Pearl Harbor was disastrously surprised. Except for the individual heroism of soldiers and sailors, that day was an unqualified disgrace...
...U.S.S. Marblehead, light cruiser often claimed sunk . . . was bombed to hell and brought out of it by a crew that doesn't know the meaning of the word abandon. Thus the Navy last week began a long delayed tale of heroism about the Battle of Java...
...Commander Francis J. Bridget, cited by his commander for "extraordinary heroism" in the bombing of Cavite...
...files of Maryknoll Seminary are filled with such instances of heroism. No religious institution in America has so many of its alumni in the Japanese war zone. More than 450 nuns and priests from Maryknoll are in the Orient. Save for a few sick or on furlough, they have stuck at their posts through the years of mounting tension. Once assigned to a field, Roman Catholic missionaries generally stay there for the rest of their lives...
...deadly coral snake. At last she conquered her fear by learning to pick up live rattlers with a forked tube. Since Cross Creek was written, the man who showed her how has since been bitten twice by moccasins, once by a rattler. Mrs. Rawlings' herpetological heroism reached the point where she killed a moccasin in her bathroom with a Sears Roebuck catalogue...