Word: spirited
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Certificates (the medium of exchange here in Viet Nam), and will gladly confer this meager token of our sympathy on the struggling young actor on his next U.S.O. appearance here. Mr. Hamilton should be warned that he may not be welcomed exclusively by souls like us, imbued with the spirit of human kindness. In the event of a hegira from his high-ceilinged mansion to this land of canvas canopies, we would ask him in his magnanimity to overlook the selfish taunts of privates earning $83.30 base pay per month with wife and children back in the States. I trust...
...Electoral suffrages" might prove a fatal threat to heroes. Americans today find heroism daily in Viet Nam and high courage in a thousand situations, from space to civil rights. And yet there is a widespread feeling that the leap of imagination that makes heroes and the generosity of spirit that acknowledges them are disappearing. Can there be real heroes in a time of the computer and the committee decision...
...process that also gives American heroism, once achieved, a special status. For despite the glib techniques of image-building, the American chooses his heroes only in a final stubbornness of spirit that resists campaign posters, opinion polls, or cocktail harangues. It is an act that differentiates Americans from other people in other times, who may have felt that their heroes had already become heroes without consultation. The American has a sense of electing his own heroes-a vote freely given that can also be freely withdrawn. Without advice and consent, there are no heroes...
...misty backwaters of Indian legend, a fierce prairie tornado struck the Potawatomi tribe encamped along the Kansas River. The dead were buried on and around the 250-foot hill that is now called Burnett's Mound, on the southwestern edge of Topeka, and the Great Spirit was enjoined to protect the place forever from the twister's deadly cone.* Topeka's immunity to catastrophic tornadoes had itself become a legend until 7:13 one evening last week, when most citizens were at dinner. By the time they would have been clearing the table, 15 were dead...
Afterward, Giap proudly wrote that "guerrilla warfare relies on the heroic spirit to triumph over modern weapons." It is a myth-enhancing statement, but it does not quite fit the facts of his triumph over the French. In the decisive turning point at Dienbienphu, it was not the heroic spirit of Giap's soldiers but their massive artillery in the hills that carried...