Word: heroisms
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Christianity is staging a comeback in China this year-a comeback almost unbelievable to those who remember its plight there in 1927. The change is due entirely to the war with Japan and the part missionaries have played in the struggle. But no amount of missionary heroism could have revived Christianity so quickly if Chinese nationalism had not done a complete about-face in its reaction to the white man's religion...
...years ago, with Attorney David Levinson, he went to New Mexico to fight for ten miners who were facing a charge of murdering a sheriff. He and Levinson were kidnapped, carried into the desert and beaten. From that adventure Minor returned a Communist hero. He kept his heroism green by fighting for the Loyalists in the Spanish Civil...
London's Auxiliary Fire Service, starting from scratch, has developed a talent for heroism. But its members had other talents to begin with. Some of them were shown last fortnight...
...combined in almost psychopathic harmonies, leap out wildly from the rest of the orchestra and then immediately subside into nothing but troubled mutterings. The famous sheep episode employs muted brasses to suggest the bleating of the sheep, and further on, open trombones play a familiar role as narrators of heroism, in this case mock-heroism...
...nominate as Man of the Year Mr. Average Citizen of London. It seems to me the heroism of the English people will exert a more important influence on history than will the contributions of any single individual...