Word: heroical
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...Bolles was heroic, two Varsity crews laughed and the Leverett second boat lost its bowman over-board on the upper Charles yesterday afternoon...
This means that any French War widow who has kept her money stowed away in banknotes in the family sock since she lost her husband in Joffre's heroic defense of the Marne has now been thoroughly, almost completely, swindled-and yet France has never resorted to "uncontrolled inflation" of the kind Germany went through after...
...ease the pain of liquidation but the voters wanted complete relief. So they elected the other candidate. Franklin Roosevelt ditched his economy platform and did what any other man would have had to do in the same position: he gave the U. S. what U. S. wanted-a heroic economic shot...
Meanwhile, heroic Leftist "suicide squads," operating in the Ebro delta to defend the besieged Tortosa, had kept Italian forces at bay for a full week. Tortosa civilians had long since evacuated their bombed, shelled and burning city...
Last week Professor C. Vann Woodward analyzed these two protesting movements in a long (518 pages), meaty biography. Toombs's story was simpler and more heroic; Watson's was incredibly confused. For 30 years he was a hero to hard pressed Georgia dirt farmers; The Thomas E. Watson Song is still sung in the Georgia back country. Debs admired Watson, Bryan feared...