Word: heroical
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Divided into eleven episodes, Winter Soldiers treats of people heroic enough to die for cause, yet human enough to swerve and falter, muster only a last-minute courage. Badly in need of sharper dialogue and swifter movement, Winter Soldiers, for all its faults, outranks most of what Broadway now has to offer...
Draja Mihailovich's Chetniks now have a song that describes a heroic drinking bout between Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin. After downing oceans of red wine they decide to send a message of hope to Douglas MacArthur...
From the Detroit Free Press came the words most typical of the nation's attitude: "You are wrong about that 'final verdict,' Senator Norris. There is never anything 'final' about the lives of men of your heroic mold. You say, 'God knows, I've tried to do the job.' Millions know how magnificently you succeeded...
Through the long feverish days and nights while Montgomery's heroic troops, sleepless, unrelieved, kept pressing against the enemy's deep positions, no counterattack made a single dent in their line. Montgomery likes to say: "Every man in the Army must have the light of battle in his eye." The Eighth Army had the light in its eyes...
Five of the Gestapo's hostages were together in one cell. Hostage Prokosch, a famous actor, "confessed" to the "murder" because a heroic exit would let him die believing that he was a better man than his wife's lover, Hostage Lobkowitz. Hostage Preissinger, who wanted to save his skin, tried to pin the murder on Hostage Janoshik, stalwart member of the Underground movement. Dr. Wallerstein, psychoanalyst and Hostage No. 5, asked only that he be allowed to record the psychological behavior of his four doomed mates, so that his memory would live as the author...