Word: josephe
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...Winston Churchill. The only Allied leader with military experience in the field as well as experience in government, he was also a superb communicator. Perhaps his finest contribution was his matchless power as a speaker, e.g., his stunning statement at Fulton, Mo., about "the Iron Curtain" that Joseph Stalin was dropping across Eastern Europe, and the unforgettable, even more crucial speech he made before the expected Nazi invasion of Britain: "We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills...
...watch men land on the moon. Unfortunately, it was also a century where evil challenged good with two world wars, constant conflicts and the killing of innocent people. An evildoer must be favored for selection as the Person of this Century. It boils down to either Adolf Hitler or Joseph Stalin. FINBARR SLATTERY Killarney, Ireland...
Technology also demands that time be measured ever more precisely. An accurate mechanical clock proved to be so valuable to the British maritime industry in the eighteenth century that the government awarded a hefty prize to its inventor, Joseph Harrison (a story elegantly told in Dava Sobel's 1995 best seller Longitude...
...DIED. JOSEPH HELLER, 76, darkly comic novelist and World War II veteran whose classic Catch-22 detailed the madness of war; in East Hampton, N.Y. The famous catch he created in 1961: "If [a pilot] flew [missions] he was crazy and didn't have to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and he had to" (see Eulogy...
...JOSEPH HELLER used to say he'd rather have a big meal than a good one. His friends were used to him grabbing the waiter to demand two large spoons and digging in first. One evening, when a huge bowl of soup was placed on the table, Joe announced, "Gentlemen, I'll serve." We watched in awe as he filled a bowl, wondering what had come over him. Then, instead of passing the soup to anyone, he just said, "Now you serve." We were relieved. We wanted him just the way he was--irascible and incorrigible. His passions were books...