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...British Führer, is a person with a range of ideas limited to the adventure and opportunities of British political life. . . . When the British people were blistered with humiliation by the currish policy of the old Conservative gang in power, the pugnacity of Winston brought him to the fore. The country meant to fight and he delighted in fighting. For want of a better, he became the symbol of our national will for conflict, a role he has now outlived...
...mean by damned?" asked his doctor. "Sent to Hell, sir, and punished everlastingly," roared Johnson. He would glance fearfully at the dial of his watch, which bore the Greek inscription: The night cometh, when no man can work. But on his deathbed his deep piety came to the fore. "I will take no more physic, not even my opiates," he said; "for I have prayed that I may render up my soul to God unclouded." On Dec. 20, 1784, he was buried in Westminster Abbey. His epitaph, suggests Author Krutch, might have been taken from an exclamation by his friend...
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...colonel then took the President and his son out through a crowd of soldiers to a waiting car. Soldiers piled in around them. Truckloads of soldiers stood fore & aft. Off sped the cavalcade toward Popayan, 100 miles away...
...probability was that there would be no public airing of the Pearl Harbor linen until after the November election. Attorney General Francis Biddle handed down a convenient legal opinion that fore cast an indefinite delay. Ruled Biddle: because Admiral Kimmel and General Short have waived the two-year statute of limitations, they can be court-martialed whenever the Army & Navy get around to it, regardless of Congressional deadlines...