Word: first
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Admiral Sir Roger Keyes (hero of the night-blockading of Zeebrugge in 1918) arose in all humility to second First Lord Churchill. Said...
...talkingest of them all was Britain's First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill, who, having given a full explanation of how Royal Oak came its cropper (see p. 20), held a pep session on BBC. It contained easily the week's liveliest name-calling...
...that ten weeks have been allotted to us to get into fighting trim," boasted Mr. Churchill. "We are far better prepared to endure the worst malice of Hitler and his Huns than we were at the beginning of September!" If Germany does not choose now to attack, continued the First Lord, "we shall profit to the full by the time put at our disposal...
...Churchill admitted that he had not always agreed with Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain, although the two had "always been personal friends. But he is a man of very tough fiber," the First Lord added, "and I can tell you that he's going to fight as obstinately for victory as he did for peace...
...minutes after Adolf Hitler left] a muffled detonation and shattering glass! There were several hysterical screams. The force of the explosion hurled me against a table. A few seconds of silence and darkness; then in the dim light of a couple of bulbs which remained intact, I saw the first persons stagger through a door. They were covered with dust...