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...amount 37 Impact sound 38 Radio parts 40 Ford is offering these to all its employees 42 Rodeo rope 44 Stimpy or Felix 45 The Name of the Rose author 46 Icelandic poetry collection 47 Half a Heyerdahl title 48 Nation that backs Hizballah 49 Stutz Bearcat contemporaries 50 Churchillian gesture 51 Roaster's platform 52 43-Down's nat. 53 Pull a boner 54 Taxpayer...
...conviction that there were truths worth defending to the death were as important as his identifying the threat and standing up to it. Forty years later, when Ronald Reagan approached the cold war as a battle to be not only fought but also won, he was following a Churchillian strategy...
Some people love dinner-party brawls. They hope, under the influence of several glasses of wine, to score a Churchillian bull's-eye along the lines of "Yes, madam, but tomorrow I shall be sober!" It never happens...
...taxi. If the impact had been harder, Viscount Lord Halifax, later known for wanting out of an "unwinnable" war with Germany, would probably have become British Prime Minister on May 10, 1941, and gone on to encourage Hitler's peace feelers after the fall of France. Instead of grim Churchillian defiance, BBC radio would have broadcast Halifax's crisp announcement of the "end of this mad war." Unhindered by a battle with Britain, Hitler would have been free to launch an even more ferocious assault on the Soviet Union, pushing German troops to Moscow by early autumn. The Reich might...