Word: heroisms
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This pleasant boring life might have continued but for Italy's Risorgimento. Everywhere patriotic Italians, with deathless heroism and the blessings of English liberals, were conspiring to upset the rudiments of order which Austria had almost succeeded in imposing on parts of the Peninsula. Teresa Guiccioli's father and brother, the Gambas, were patriots and revolutionists. Encouraged by them, Byron joined the Carbonari...
...scope of its undertaking is gigantic; and happily, Carol Reed and his company are almost everywhere equal to their task. With the epic mundaneness of Sandburg and the brutal candor of Van Gogh, they have captured in word and picture the grim atmosphere of mining life and the grimmer heroism of its day-to-day struggle for survival...
...longer any security, and justice has come to be a thing of the past. If the Church is accused of disrupting the unity of a nation, the reply must be that the secret police is disrupting that unity in a way which concerns all Christians." He praised the heroism of imprisoned Protestant Pastor Niemöller, saying that Catholics and Protestants alike respected him and that he could not possibly be regarded as an enemy of the people though Nazis treated...
Every nation in wartime derives inspiration from its own peculiar tales of heroism. Some are legend, some are fact. Legend or fact, a tale was told by the Chinese last week of Chen Chung-chu, a guerrilla leader in the never-never land of North China behind the Japanese lines...
...Poles! The heroism of your people standing up to the cruel oppressors, the courage of your soldiers, sailors, airmen shall not be forgotten. Your country shall live again and resume its rightful part in the new organization of Europe...