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At the base of the Aventine, a postwar park has been named the Parco della Resistenza dell'Otto Settembre , commemorating the heroic action against the Nazis there on that date in 1943 by the Italian partisans.
If patriots make a reverent pilgrimage to Canada’s Sports Hall of Fame (just off Lakeshore Boulevard West at Exhibition Place) to salute heroic athletes of the past, the separate Hockey Hall of Fame provides a tonic lesson for American visitors to recall, among the trophies, masks, skates, and hockey sticks, the fact that nearly all their ice hockey heroes are Canadian-born.
Idioms are frequently fossilized metaphors: the thin red line , which lies at the back of this piece of wordplay, means the heroic resistance of the few against many, and originally described a regiment of redcoated highlanders at the battle of Balaclava.
While the local paper chases a story involving the Mayor, the FBI, and the waterfront, the Wall Street Journal finds in the same waterfront a tale of a city re-inventing itself through heroic redevelopment.
Pro-Microsoft analysts spin this as a heroic sacrifice, removing the "lightning rod" whose "seemingly disingenuous testimony" has ostensibly driven the DOJ to the verge of demanding the company's breakup.