Word: heroisms
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...their unexpected recognition of General Franco's rebel bands Mussolini and Hitler are playing a gambler's last card. The defense of Madrid by the constitutional government of Spain during the past two weeks has been a spectacle of heroism and determination equalled by nothing in this or any other recent war. In the reports of impartial observers that each day the Loyalists show an increased strength and promise lies the key to Germany's and Italy's recognition...
...Brussels palace, King Leopold III of the Belgians entertained at dinner 64 coal miners and their families as a tribute to the men's heroism during a Bouverie mine disaster last month...
...Gentlemen, we thank you! When in 1918 desperation ruled Germany, you cherished our great heritage. When cowardice was in the ascendant you continued to sing of the German man's eternal heroism. At a time when men without honor governed, you stood for German honor...
...self-conscious hero, Lewis writes little of the spectacular deeds of heroism that usually fill such memoirs. He loved flying for its own sake-to get up above the clouds and stare at the "level plain of radiant whiteness, sparkling in the sun" when the unearthly light seemed to permeate every atom of air in the "dazzling, perfect basin of blue." Then he was as happy, he felt, as he could ever be. A rainbow at that height was not an arc but a perfect circle. He could dive and turn to watch the shadow of his plane...
...Portuguese, sympathetic with Spain's Whites, kept broadcasting to the Alcázar cadets from Lisbon: "The world is breathless before your heroism! If you can hold out you can have full revenge on your tormentors. Moroccan troops have instructions not to leave a soul alive in Toledo! They are within nine miles of the city butchering Marxist villagers." This false claim made mirth for the Reds who also guffawed when White Seville broadcast on Aug. 31 the lie that White "Colonel Yague is at the gates of Toledo...