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Word: criccieth (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Christmas Eve he called Emlyn P. Evans, chairman of the Caernarvon Liberal Association, to his Criccieth home. There, amid the gold-&-silver mementos filling the room, the great little man with the flowing white mane and piercing blue eyes announced his decision. He was going to take his doctors' advice; he would not contest the next election. Caernarvon would have to find another candidate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: L.G. Retires | 1/8/1945 | See Source »

Died. Dame Margaret Lloyd George, 77, three days after Husband David's 78th birthday; at Criccieth, Caernarvonshire, Wales. They had been married 53 years. Mercurial Lloyd George once jocularly observed: "One of us is contentious, combative, stormy. That is my wife. Then there is the other partner-placid, calm, peaceable, and patient. That...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 27, 1941 | 1/27/1941 | See Source »

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