Word: pitt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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London of the Bank Holiday, Whitmonday, while a gusty wind blew the cold rain down Downing Street. The next day the formal signing, with Churchill's gold-bound pen, took place in Eden's red-leather-chaired room under a bust of the younger Pitt...
...think,' said his father of him as a boy, 'I think our Jack would not attend to the most pressing necessities of nature unless he could give a reason for it' "); Charles James Fox ("the most delightful Englishman of his time"); William Pitt (". . . passing from Fox to Pitt . . . is like leaving a lighted house where there was companionship and dancing and supper, to walk home alone through streets solemn with midnight"); Pope ("Is it 'poetry'?"); Swift ("Swift's living brain was akin to other men's in dreams"); Defoe ("Defoe was less...
...spot to celebrate the departure of the English from the harbor. In 1784, all other American troops were discharged from service, and Battery D, then popularly known as the 5th Field Artillery, made up the whole U.S. Army. They kept the military tradition alive at West Point and Fort Pitt...
...Edmund Burke (on hearing from William Pitt that "this country and its constitution are safe to the Day of Judgment") : "It's the day of no judgment that I am afraid...
...Fordham (beaten only by pure little Pitt) will meet once-beaten Missouri in New Orleans' Sugar Bowl...