Word: heroical
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...right. Our greatest fear is not to do wrong, but to be caught doing wrong. Our conception of virtue is conventional. We take religion lightly and we think lip-service equivalent to a deep, abiding faith. Patriotism among us is only skin deep and incapable of inspiring heroic deeds. ... A wrong adaptation of foreign customs creates in us, especially among the young, a feeling that politeness is commonplace and that smartness and insolence are equivalent to good breeding. We attained our freedom but our spirit is still bound by shackles forced by the frailties of our nature. We are Orientals...
...different from equally interminable conversations about his generally pleasant and prospering plantation affairs. And since both Cavin and his wife (an idyllic pair) are dimly characterized, the novel's total effect is to make the violence of Reconstruction seem as placid as Cavin's family is respectably heroic...
...river gunboats and bombing planes, last week took the famed Chinese pottery centre, Kiukiang. their objective for the past month. In joyous terms, as though announcing a victory, the Chinese press boasted of the enormous quantities of shells and bombs the capture of Kiukiang had cost the Japanese. The heroic Chinese defenders of the Lion Hill Forts, sworn to fight to the last man rather than yield, were congratulated for having held out for 72 hours under heavy artillery fire before they fled...
...minority of 48,000 Jews were fearful last month that their luck might be running out (TIME, July 18). Last week they learned officially that it was running out indeed. On the heels of a manifesto drawn up by ten Fascist savants, declaring that Italians are "Aryan, Nordic and heroic" and that "Jews do not belong to the Italian race," came announcement from Fascist Party Secretary Achille Starace that the Government had prepared a series of laws to "defend the race against all contamination...
...military stature is genial, bald, double-chinned General José Miaja, "Savior of Madrid,'' ruler of Southern Leftist Spain, said to have been converted to Communism. His resounding declaration-"Madrid will be the tomb of Fascism"-became one of the slogans of that city's heroic defense. Mysteriously killed in battle was history's first Anarchist general, Buenaventura Durruti, organizer of the first Anarchist militia. Also passed out of the picture is the brains of Madrid's defense-42-year-old, tall, Austrian-born, Canadian-naturalized Emilio Kleber, former commander of the International Brigade, globe...