Word: heroisms
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...hell out of here!' He began to run and led us through the breach under fire. There's a kind of -- not courage, but anger and balls that mix together on a charge. But whatever you do, keep away from words like heroism. We were in the U.S. Infantry...
...public eye, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis' heroism is imprinted through indelible images: at L.B.J.'s side, with a gaze more eloquent than any words, as he took the oath of office; gripping Robert Kennedy's hand and then her children's; receiving the flag that had covered J.F.K.'s coffin. But what of the woman beyond the camera's range? There are no pictures of her heartbreak and bravery at Parkland. Yet that was somehow...
...about Ireland's struggle to rid itself of English domination. Here as in the earlier novels, The Year of the French and The Tenants of Time, there is a powerful sense that the future is watching over one's shoulder. Unlike the characters, the reader knows that all the heroism and treachery, all the endless talk and rising-of-the-moon balladmaking, will end without result because the English will not be dislodged...
Aside from the unquestioned good of bringing the Holocaust to the front of the national consciousness, "schindler's list" has given heroism a face...
...fact that the airmen had already seen two Black Hawks destroyed and one damaged so badly that it barely made it back to the airport, the pilots refused to back off. Waddell, whose platoon suffered 70% casualties, described the airmen's performance as "breathtaking, an incredible display of heroism. Those guys knew that without their help, we weren't going to make...