Word: finests
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...THEIR FINEST HOUR (751 pp.)-Winston S. Churchill-Houghton Mifflin...
...these words, the man who made British determination plain to the world strikes the major theme of the second volume of his World War II memoirs. The title, Their Finest Hour, means just what it suggests-an hour in which the shames and hesitancies of the British past have been whipped out of sight, and the triumphs and tragedies of later years are still unforeseeable. Only the absorbing, solitary hour of the British crisis is present-the decisive hour in which the past must be redeemed and the future secured. It was to this decisive moment that Churchill called upon...
History boasts some of the finest lecturers in the College. Morison is the closest thing the department has to a romantic historian. Nobody in History is capable of writing historical fiction of the equivocal past but the men in the department don't reduce history to a recital of dates and kings enlivened occasionally by the adventures of the kings' mistresses...
...diving is nothing short of superb. Vicki Draves is an extraordinary performer, and her husband Lyle is almost as good. But the finest dive of the evening is performed by someone I have never heard of, and whose name I cannot remember. It is a combination backward somersault--two and one half forward somersault--full twist plunge off a board which could not have been more than 12 feet above the pool...
...college had other benefactors. A roistering Irishman named "Jockey" John Robinson, who had made a fortune out of the "finest, fruitiest, most ropey" rye whisky in the region, gave $50,000 too. That did not mean the college's troubles were over. The Civil War left Washington College in desperate straits. Four months after Appomattox, it invited Robert E. Lee himself to be president. He was the one man, the college thought, who could save the day. Lee agreed to try, at a salary of $1,500 a year ("if that sum can be raised"). He started the schools...