Word: statesman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...people could do no less. For Sir Winston was a kingly figure, his life a glowing Shakespearean epic. He had been his nation's savior, Britain's greatest statesman, leader and inspiration of the free world. In war and diplomacy, oratory and literature, above all in his delineation of Western values, his achievements place him honorably in the company of Pericles and the elder Pitt, of Wellington and Washington...
...named the forces that were to shape subsequent history: the cold war, the Iron Curtain, Europe's drive for unity, disorder and dictatorship in many of the lands that had once been part of Empire. At the end, few who paid him tribute remembered how bitterly the old statesman had been reviled in his time. Denounced in turn as charlatan, braggart, turncoat and warmonger, he was many times defeated at the polls, swept from high office, made the scapegoat of others' failures. But if Churchill was sometimes wrong, on the great issues of his times he was most...
Churchill wielded greater personal power during the five wartime years than any other Prime Minister in British history. No detail was too small to escape his attention as strategist or statesman. Clad in the siren suit that he invented, a cigar clamped grotesquely in the midst of his cherubic countenance, he never tired of inspecting troops or chatting with victims of the blitz, often had to be dragged protesting from a rooftop as London shuddered under a Luftwaffe attack...
Churchill will receive a state funeral Saturday at St. Paul's Cathedral. The services will be conducted by the Archbishop of Canterbury. No British statesman has been honored with a state funeral in the last 67 years...
Elemental, prodigious, indomitable, the spirit of Winston Churchill prevailed even as sickness shrouded his senses and the world waited to write his eulogies. Statesman and politician, historian and painter, orater and adventurer, his versatility, energy and excellence made him a revered and legendary figure ten years before his death. But imposing as his accomplishments are--his thirty volumes, his Nobel Prize, his magnificient speeches, his lucid grasp of European politics, his war-time greatness--it is ultimately his spirit, the proud, fierce joy with which he lived, that is most awesome...