Word: heroical
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...scientists who can be invited to tea parties. Letter slots were cut in certain important doors at Bell Telephone's Laboratories so that nobody can peer inside. Old colleagues no longer know what their pals are working at. And after hours-which are late and long-they make heroic efforts not to talk shop...
...Hitler skipped in this week's speech to the Reichstag. He did not skip the cold Russian winter, and underlined the fact that the thermometer had dropped to 62° F below. He got in the "archcapitalist" British, the "scoundrel" Jews, the "criminal" Churchill, the "maniac" Roosevelt, the "heroic" Japanese, and the Almighty, of whom he asked "nothing more . . . than that He should bless us in the future as He has done in the past...
...following is an excerpt from a letter written on Feb. 14 during the heroic defense of Bataan Peninsula by Lieut. Colonel James E. Macklin, U.S. Quartermaster Corps, to his wife in San Francisco. She followed the instruction given in the last sentence...
...announcement was no surprise. The deal got a boost on Dec. 7 when heroic Doris Miller, Negro messman aboard the Pearl-Harbored Arizona, manned a machine gun, blasted away at Jap planes until his ammunition ran out. The idea speeded up when Joe Louis handed $89,00 fight proceeds to Navy Relief, was practically clinched when Wendell Willkie urged the Navy to drop its anti-Negro rule...
...part of the trouble is the play itself. The dialogue, more like subdued rhetoric than human talk, often seems stilted and formal when spoken aloud. The play lacks sustained action and commits the dramatic crime of having almost everything exciting take place offstage. Finally, though the townspeople's heroic resolution is made clear, their flesh-&-blood sufferings...