Word: life
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...forgive me. Goodbye . . . Those who are 'creating history' [are to blame], and perhaps not even they." To his court and jailers: "I blame nobody . . . Food was good." To his prosecutor: "The wheel of history has passed over a worm." To God: "How stupid it is. Before my life's end, I am lunching and dining and taking exercise . . . God, where...
...nightfall of Oct. 21, 1805, the battle off Trafalgar was all but over. Admiral Lord Nelson, who paid for the victory with his life, had become forever the great captain of the seagoing British Empire. But to one commander in the shattered French fleet, there seemed at least a chance of honorable escape. Accompanied by three French ships of the line, Rear Admiral Dumanoir le Pelley sheeted home his sails and set off in his flagship, the 74-gun Duguay-Trouin, for the safety of a French Atlantic port. Badly scarred by gunfire from Nelson's own ship Victory...
...Britain's House of Commons. "In these days," said Prime Minister Clement Attlee, from the government front bench, "75 is not a venerable age. People seem to be able to continue for several decades after that-yet 75 does mark a distinct stage in one's life. I am sure that we all rejoice to see the right honorable gentleman in full health and activity, and wish him many more years...
...greatest Briton of his time. Telegrams, letters and parcels poured in on him all day. Denmark's King Frederik and Queen Ingrid toasted him at a lunch in the Danish embassy, while in the streets outside a huge crowd greeted him with shouts of "Good old Winnie!" "His life," said London's Evening Standard, "is the most important individual strand in the weave of the 20th Century...
...tried to meet the government at least halfway, had issued "conciliatory directives" telling priests to accept state salaries and take an oath of loyalty to the Red regime. In return, the bishops said, the Communist government had issued new decrees which were "an attack on the organization and life of the church." The bishops' letter concluded: "We cannot render unto Caesar that which is God's ... If, however-and God prevent it-a religious fight should arise from this our proclamation . . . there are enough people in this country of the Holy Martyrs who are willing to sacrifice everything...