Word: greats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...family photograph projected on the large screen behind him, Jennings read an account of the Great Depression from a woman named Clara Hancock...
...Hilary is a very good athlete and a hard worker," Brand said. "Plus, she has talent, which helps a lot. She's already learning the proper timing and she has great footwork...
...thought both Samuels and Cielebak did a great job on Clemente in the first," Magarity said. "He's such a smart player that he didn't force the issue, but maybe he should have, since he's almost impossible to stop on that step-back shot...
...fame. Then, at age twenty-three, he published his first book, a comprehensive account of the Malakand Field Force. He also insinuated himself into the battle of Omdurman, by which the British reconquered the Sudan. Although Omdurman was not the last cavalry charge of the Empire, it was last great charge, and Churchill again played a hero's role. He soon afterward left the army to stand for election to Parliament. He lost the election, but he used the leisure of the season to write a second book, a best-selling account of the charge at Omdurman...
...point on the matter, to comprehend that Churchill's youthful heroism accounts for his mature heroism. Had Churchill not faced down death as a young man, would he have had the courage to face down Hitler in 1940? Had Churchill not learned from and become one of history's great authors, would he have had the eloquence to steel the British people in 1940 against the most ferocious force ever to walk the earth? Churchill never flinched when he and Britain stood alone in June 1940. "Hitler knows that he will have to break us in this Island or lose...