Word: heroism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Aviv last week carried a marking, "Egyptian Army Seamen," and its lone survivor at first insisted that he had set out from Port Said. (He later admitted that the party embarked from Lebanon.) Sadat must be cautious at a time when much of the Arab world is applauding the "heroism" of the fedayeen foray on Tel Aviv...
...waiting for summer vacation to end so he could enter the University of Connecticut and try out for the freshman team. By the time of his death four years later, Eric had become an extraordinary man. Leukemia, which killed him, forced him to live at the level of heroism...
...should be burned in the memory of us all-the monstrosities of its villains, the terrible miscarriages of justice and finally, the heroism of Warrant Officer Hugh Thompson...
...keys to the car that was to be his payment. He is bloodied in a brawl. Then another death ensues, that of his ancient grandmother. She had once been the third wife of a revered - and defeated - Blackfoot chief. Watching her die, the grandson learns something of her heroism and finds another survivor, his own grandfather, to link him to the tragic past of his people...
...dramatic innovator. The G-Minor Ballade, for example, is one of the composer's most original and powerful creations. Yet Horowitz turned it into a series of episodes; it was like hearing alternately an Impromptu, Nocturne and Etude, The effect was to reduce the work's heroism to mere gallantry...