Word: squirish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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People flocked to his narrow Regency house in London or his squirish estate in Buckinghamshire and were dazzled by his private charm. In private or public there was no holding his mind or braking his tongue. He railed against his own party for not backing intervention against Spain's Franco, at one point was suspended from the House. With the coming of war, his was one of the first voices to call Winston Churchill to lead a national government, but in the midst of Britain's finest hour, he denounced the great man as "suffering from petrified adolescence...
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