Word: stoicism
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...Everything possible will be done to alleviate the "foodstuff, clothing and housing" situation. But the nation must be ready for "anguish . . . suffering ... life of stoicism." (The Welfare Ministry launched a drive to popularize a new bread made of "waste starch, acorns, pigweed, clover leaves, potato vines...
...Cardinal's Bathtub. At 14 he entered Clifton College, which was noted for its "Roman stoicism and service suffused with Christianity." Though "it left too little room for the individual to develop ... there could hardly have been a cleaner school in England." New Boy Q decorated his room with knickknacks. Next day, the Housemaster pinned a notice on the school board: "The House is reminded that Corinthian embellishments consort ill with its tradition of Doric austerity...
...true that many Britons, especially belligerent beldames of 70 and up, reacted to the robots with that admirable and tiresome mixture of flippancy, phlegm and self-conscious stoicism that non-Britons find so hard to understand. "Why, the silly things," cracked one old lady last week, "the Germans are throwing darts...
Your stark, epic portrait [TIME, May 8] of General Wainwright is the most challenging pictorial document of the war. His face illuminates all the tragedy, stoicism and heartbreak that men everywhere are enduring. As a shaming denunciation of "life as usual" and as a great inspiration for sacrifice it is unsurpassed...
...those who knew Wainwright knew that he would accept his fate with the stoicism of a professional soldier. Though he might look back on the events which had landed him behind barbed Wire with bitterness, he could look back on the life of Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright without shame...