Word: heroisms
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Thompson emphasized said Aaron's heroism as aquality that especially struck the classcommittee...
...malignant that only murder on a grand scale can satisfy it. Who really knows how many citizens --a dozen? a hundred?--feel so passionately that their government is the Great Satan that they would resort to such evil? This much is certain: the courage of the bereaved and the heroism of the rescuers in Oklahoma City are the stuff of true patriotism...
...there is a peace that passeth all understanding, Vietnam may be the war that passeth all understanding. In the following pages, as we convey the panic and heroism of Saigon's last hours and describe Vietnam as it is today, as we explore the myths of the lessons of the war and offer a novelist's meditation on its end, we hope to shed some light on a place where memory burns, but darkness still prevails...
...Glendale, Arizona, and a Mariner replacement, rescued badly burned twin infants from a fire, then 10 hours later pitched two shutout innings. Another pitcher, Dave Shotkoski of the Atlanta Braves, was killed in West Palm Beach, Florida, during a robbery, but even his tragedy yielded a tale of heroism. Braves outfielder--cable installer Terry Blocker walked and talked his way through a bad neighborhood and eventually led police to a suspect...
...would be hard to outdo director Antonova's title for the Pushkin show: "Twice Saved"--as though its pictures had undergone some religious conversion by being dragged off to Mother Russia, "saved" by conservators after being "saved" previously by the Red Army in what she called "an act of heroism." Maybe some of these objects would have been burned to ashes or blown to pieces if they had remained in Germany. And maybe not. Nobody knows, and the question is irrelevant to the morality of keeping war loot...