Word: heroical
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...armistice dictated by France's Marshal Ferdinand Foch. Before Adolf Hitler as he stepped out of the car stood France's monument to Alsace-Lorraine. German war flags covered the sculptured sword thrust into a limp German eagle. Swastika banners hid the inscription beneath: To the Heroic Soldiers of France, Defenders of the Country and of Right, Glorious Liberators of Alsace-Lorraine...
Mexico City -Reader Dorantes is right on two counts: 1) The Alcazar did not fall; the late Webb Miller witnessed the end of the siege. 2) Its ten-week defense must be acknowledged one of the most heroic in modern history...
...heroic thing about Franco's men is that the Alcazar did not fall. Or am I wrong...
Above the Arctic Circle, continuous daylight last week illuminated the last efforts of a haggard, heroic band of Austrian ski troops to hold the one bit of dry land which the Allies have wrested from the Nazi war machine. German airmen tried to strengthen their comrades' failing grip, but massed Allied warships, planes, artillery and foot soldiers on all four sides brought about at last the recapture of snow-clad Narvik, all-but-forgotten Norwegian outlet for Sweden's high-grade iron...
...works is Guiding Light, the story of a non-sectarian minister in a melting-pot community, into which she pours most of her philosophy and night-thoughts. It is in Woman in White, though, that Irna gets in some of her most telling licks. Featuring Karen Adams, a heroic nurse, Woman in White, like many other script shows, is remarkably independent of radio's taboos. Only recently Nurse Adams was doublecrossed by her fiance, Dr. Kirk Harding, who got a girl named Janet Munson with child. To make matters worse, Janet had whisked off and married Nurse Adams...