Word: churchillian
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...grown considerably worse since then. The country not only faces what all party leaders agree is the worst economic crisis in 40 years, but also is suffering from a political malaise that some observers fear could threaten the existence of parliamentary democracy. It is, in short, a crisis of Churchillian dimensions -but no Winston Churchill is in sight. Instead, the voters will choose as their next Prime Minister a tired and familiar old face: either cunning, pragmatic Laborite Wilson, 58; schoolmasterly bachelor Edward Heath, 58, the Conservatives' leader; or likable but inexperienced Liberal Jeremy Thorpe...
...Erik Erikson detected a "shrewdness [that] seemed to join his capacity to focus on the infinite meaning in finite things?a trait which is often associated with the attribution of sainthood." The rule that great leaders are summoned forth by great issues can be persuasively argued from, say, the Churchillian example?a brilliant, irascible aristocrat who was settling into a relatively unsuccessful old age when the war called him forth to embody a people's grand defiance...
...Lenin, Stalin, Mao Tse-tung and Brezhnev never were able to do-make the British Communist Party look important." As for the Pay Board's belated discovery that the miners were not being paid 3% above the average industrial wage but 8% below, Wilson drew cheers with the Churchillian parody that "never in the history of arithmetic had so stupid a miscalculation done so much damage to so many millions of people...
...parliament in 1932 as a Socialist; by 1938 he had become his country's youngest Prime Minister. When Belgium fell to the Nazis in 1940, Spaak fled to London and returned after the war to Belgium to serve twice more as Prime Minister, six times as Foreign Minister. Churchillian in looks and sometimes in rhetoric, he was in 1944 a major author of the United Nations Charter, then became the General Assembly's first President. Five years later he helped found the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and from 1955 to 1957 he served as chairman of the Treaties...
...insisted on traveling by car in hopes of once again seeing the South. Instead, he was offended by the "swiss cheese architecture" of ubiquitous Holiday Inns and equally inescapable Howard Johnson Restaurants where "music appears to emanate from the toilets." Crippled by age and pain, weighted down by his Churchillian frame. Wilson could still find the energy to laugh at it all, dismissing the landscape with a patrician arrogance that his energy and learning had long ago earned...