Word: heroisms
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...Britain may take good heart from the American Civil War when all the heroism of the South could not redeem their cause from the stain of slavery, just as all the courage and skill, which the Germans show in war, will not free them from the reproach of Naziism with its intolerance and brutality," cried Winston Churchill month ago. Vexed, Mrs. Walter D. Lamar, retiring president of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, last week retorted: "That insult to the best part of America shows both ignorance and stupidity. . . ." Hastily Mr. Churchill's secretaries rushed off answers to letter...
...midnight coffee was served (also Christmas cookies), but not until 3 o'clock in the morning did anyone think of the time or of moving from their places. We heard at first hand the story of those now world-famous exploits of the Emden and the unbelievable heroism of the trip from Keeling Island to Turkey. . . . The thing that struck us all and made the deepest impression was the almost complete lack of appearance of the pronoun "I" in any of the narrative...
...nearly 400 pages about these embattled primitives, Author Cheney never once skids into histrionics, bitterness or those tones of romantic compassion which mar the larger talent of Steinbeck. He presents these types of inarticulate and stony heroism not as sentimental literary properties but as if they had a dignified, unobstreperous standing in human existence. With a constant and expert attentiveness to exactitudes of speech, gesture, action, he writes of violence (a negress cutting a white man's throat), horror (a father incapable of restraining his vomit over the 19-day corpse of his son), brutality...
...Cyril is the only British high-ranking officer today who has the Albert Medal 1st Class, usually associated with peacetime heroism. One day in 1916 fire broke out in an R.F.C. bomb store containing 2,000 high-explosive bombs. The key could not be found. Cyril Newall and a mechanic climbed on the roof and played a hose through a hole burned by the flames. Newall then led three others into the building, and together they put out the fire...
...submarine. There was a terrific shock, the lights went out, the tables in the dining room slid across the floor, women screamed and children began to cry-people were just lighting cigarets, just finishing coffee after dinner, just reaching for something to read-there was heroism, as always, and panic, as always; there was a man who stole a Minneapolis girl's flashlight and a few members of the crew who crowded into lifeboats; there was an eleven-year-old boy who heard his small brother cry, "Jump, Mother, jump!" and then saw him disappear forever; there...