Word: heroical
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...Crimson jubilation was short- lived, for the second half quickly took on a decidedly Blue tinge. The heroic efforts of the Harvard defense, particularly Rudofsky, still halted the Eli attackers at a respectable distance from the basket and forced them to resort to mid-court shots. Pite's luck changed, however, and the same sort of long-distance pot-shots which had gone wild in the first half now began to drop through the hoop with disconcerting regularity...
...Catherine Owen). --Audience employs opera glasses at this point. Thereupon the past and the present become inextricably mixed, the lights are turned off, and some minutes later the hero is disclosed perched upon the chandelier, while the two villians lie blood-smeared in a corner. Hero descends and assumes heroic attitude. Heroine rushes in, and the future is prophesied in the usual way. (Curtain...
...long supremacy of Harvard hockey teams was seriously challenged last year--and finally vindicated only by heroic efforts. If anyone threatens this year, it is Yale. Unbeaten so far by any college sextet, reinforced by several undoubted stars, and victorious over McGill--to whom the University lost in an early season game,--Yale has much confidence in her ability to play Captain Crosby's men to a standstill. Harvard men, nevertheless, think otherwise...
...misplaced idealism in the emotional stress of war, the first light it saw was very dark indeed, and the principle acts, or inactions, committed in its name have damned it eternally for the many heroes and heroines who have sustained through war the bitter loss of their more heroic...
Manuel's blood and Jurgen's ran in the veins of Florian de Puysange?a heroic but discomfortable inheritance. It did not help him to live easily in this world...