Word: heroical
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...definitive image of civilization; in a nobly ornate Italian square a heroic bronze horse, about to be removed to Germany, totters on its scaffolding...
...Newest Allies. One clear reason for the spectacular Allied advance was the heroic determination of the troops Hitler had to stop. Almost unanimously, correspondents picked as their fighting favorites the French troops-Moroccan Goums, Senegalese infantrymen and Algerian riflemen serving under French officers and noncoms. Some of them had actually fought on opposite sides in the Fighting French-Vichy squabbles in Syria three years...
...faculties, 'shaped for heroic feats, despise the pliability, the intrigues and the parade through which most brilliant careers are achieved in peacetime. . . . He would be condemned to emasculation or corruption, if he lacked the grim impulse of ambition to spur him on ... the hope of playing a great role in great events...
...which Betty Grable made during the early stages of pregnancy. Cinemactress Grable plays the toast of a midland chapter of the U.S.O., becomes so amiable a Pin-Up Girl that half the war effort thinks it is engaged to her. Later in Manhattan and Washington she meets a heroic sailor (John Harvey), takes his advances seriously, whiles the reels away with deceptions, misunderstandings, quarrels, songs & dances. Typical number: Martha Raye sings Red Robins, Bob-whites and Bluebirds, while a lot of girls rhythmically wag the red, white & blue rear ends of ostriches...
...about 75° F.,that the mold needs plenty of air. At first, Dr. Florey's researchers got only about a gram of reddish-brown powder (the sodium salt of penicillin -penicillin itself is an unstable acid) from 100 liters of the mold liquid. But at last, after heroic chemical cookery, they accumulated enough penicillin to test the drug on living creatures...