Word: lasting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...News anchor Peter Jennings brought his version of recent history to life last night with a reading of selections from his best-selling book, The Century, at the Askwith Lecture Hall...
...Last night's discussion spanned the major events of the century, the harrowing anecdotes including World War I, the Civil Rights movement and the end of the Cold...
...higher-ranking officers came to resent Churchill's 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...
...that we have known and cared for, will sink into the abyss of a new Dark Age made more sinister, and perhaps more protracted, by the light of perverted science. Let us therefore brace ourselves to our duties, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for a thousand years, men will still say 'This was their finest hour.'" These words, along with Churchill's deeds, moved a country to withstand the most overwhelming odds and to save mankind...
...effort to reverse its financial woes, the Co-op last December came under the management of Wallace's Bookstores, a Lexington, Ky. firm...