Word: heroical
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...great faith in such emplacements. No enemy fleet is likely to come within range while the Canal is still intact. Coast Artillery anti-aircraft men, although they could use more and better guns, have gone into the jungles, placed and manned what guns they have there, done a heroic job of soldiering. But they, too, have no illusions about last-ditch defense. If ever enemy bombers in sufficient force get over the Zone, and find the few small targets that mean anything, the Canal can be closed; the U.S. Fleet can be divided...
...respect the activities of the last week have had their desired effect, for despite the heroic resistance still being put up by the much maligned little band of anti-Administration stalwarts, the result has been consternation in the anti-war camp. The ranks of the faithful have been serried by the honeyed arguments which present the War To Come as an exciting adventure. The roscate prospect of a quick and decisive victory over Japan and a paralysis of Germany by a painless conquest has made a good interventionist out of many a former advocate of peace...
George's flight was by steamer, from the crowded, bomb-tangled port of Peirae-us. As he left, he released his heroic, echoing formula: ". . . hard destinies of war . . . lawful Government . . . continue the fight . . . resistance to the end. . . ." Then, by night, the steamer picked its way to Suda Bay, Crete, and King George, his brother and his Ministers proceeded to Candia, where the monarch called the first Cabinet meeting of Free Greece...
Having girded ourselves for that heroic errand, shall we pause to ask if she will mend her morals? . . . Either she is worth saving as she is and was, or she is not worth saving...
...Harvard and William and Mary, in contemplating their past achievements and their future hopes, recognize that they are indissolubly bound now, as then, to the preservation and extension of the sanctity of individual freedom. In that bond of spiritual union the voice of cloistered learning becomes the trumpet of heroic conflict...