Word: heroisms
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There were signs that the strain was beginning to tell. A German spokesman paid tribute to the "heroism" of German civilians, admitted that there were some "heavily bombed towns in western and northern Germany," and, somewhat tardily, considering the record of the Luftwaffe, remarked: "All this bombing of civilians could have been avoided by really humane warfare...
...picture of trench warfare, but a story of an American country boy and how he came to fight for his country. So much of the film is given to the painstaking development of his character that his heroic feat, when it comes, is merely an extension of the everyday heroism of a dignified, impoverished mountain people...
Like a fresh wind blowing in from the sea, the campaign spread over Europe. V, which stood for victory in English and victoire in French, became vryheid (freedom) in Dutch, vitezstvi (victory) in Czech, vitestvo (heroism) in Serbian, and in Norwegian ve vil vinne, which means just what it sounds like in pidgin English...
...Government filled its brave people full of tales of Russian heroism and held out no false promises of military aid from Britain or the U.S. The papers dropped dialectics, merely talked of the "fatherland's war" against foreign invaders...
...William Yandell Elliott, a stop-and-go signal for personal heroism. . . in his frequent crossings of Harvard Square...