Word: warriorism
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...Finest Hours is a skillfully assembled and frequently moving sketch of the magnificent statesman-warrior-historian-painter-orator-bully who turned 90 yesterday, Winston S. Churchill. The film has nothing to offer in the way of balanced evaluations of Churchill's place in world history. But it does provide some insight into the qualities of his life...
...Sudanese, historically renowned for their martial prowess, revered Abboud as the greatest warrior of them all. Sandhurst-trained, anglicized down to his swagger stick and Bond Street shoes, Abboud in World War II led the Sudan Defense Force into battle against Rommel's Afrika Korps, wound up with two dozen combat ribbons on his chest...
...happy and excited, for he had waged a bold and joyous campaign, and in the aftermath he could validly claim that he had made a considerable contribution to the size of the Democratic victory. Soon after his nomination, Minnesota's Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag dubbed Hubert "the happy warrior of our generation," and throughout the campaign Humphrey lived up to the title. He had "The Happy Warrior" painted on the chartered Electra that carried him some 52,000 miles back and forth across the U.S. Aboard the Warrior, happy days were mandatory. West Virginia Folk Singer Jimmy Wolforcl twanged...
...Perhaps it is because Davis refused to let himself be forgiven, and went on proclaiming the Tightness of the South's cause until his death in 1889. Or it may be that the popular taste for gallant losers is satisfied in this historical instance by the courtly warrior, Robert E. Lee. At any rate, the dimness of Davis' repute, even among Southerners, is attested by the fact that Hudson Strode's three-volume biography is not only the best modern work on Davis; it is virtually the only...
...next crowd. If he is willing to sacrifice enough sleep, the candidate can race the sun westward. The day is usually 20 hours long. And to newsmen chasing two jets called Air Force One (Johnson) and Yia Bi Kin (Goldwater), the two prop jets Niagaran (Miller) and Happy Warrior (Humphrey), the campaign day is usually a 20-hour blur...