Word: summing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...compulsion to sum up the half-centuries which overpowers newspaper and magazine editors every fifty years demands more audacity than good sense. Only a being from another planet could hope to remain sufficiently unmoved by the great forces and events engulfing mankind to treat the most recent five decades with any degree of unconcerned ness. And that's just what I am--a being from another planet. Just which planet I'm not prepared to say, as my long since civilized home does not wish visitations by adventuresome barbarians...
...Winston Churchill. Sometimes wrong, often right, he fought his way toward the heart of every storm. In 1900, Churchill, like his contemporaries, looked forward to pleasant years. Like his contemporaries, Churchill was to struggle through depths and rise to heights unimaginable to 1900. No man's history can sum up the dreadful, wonderful years 1900-50. Churchill's story comes closest...