71.   He was first a national hero in Italy then a cowardly pariah and, finally, rehabilitated.

72.   He wears the role of national hero lightly.

73.   He would be able to paint himself as a persecuted national hero and claim that history will absolve him.

74.   He reorganized relief efforts, stomped around impressively, visited levee camps, craved publicity, and rose as a national hero and presidential contender.

75.   Here in his baseball-mad homeland, such achievements are enough to have vaulted him to the status of national hero and possible future president.

76.   He was dispatched from this world in a ceremony befitting the national hero he styled himself as.

77.   He was famous in Sacramento, where I grew up, and while he never became a famous national hero, his buddy Joe DiMaggio did.

78.   He was greeted as a national hero just for not breaking any bones, but he knew it would be different in the capital of world ski jumping.

79.   I mean, the President of the United States decided not fly him because he was a national hero.

80.   If Zhang had joined the Communists after the kidnapping, he might have been treated as a national hero.