Word: toed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Her back broken, the old warrior settled slowly into the trough, sea water surging through her open ports. But she would not sink. A tug was ordered in to ram. Still the Implacable stayed afloat. For three hours the old ship lay awash, her gunwales flush with the waves, her...
It was a warm little family ceremony that could have happened only in 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...
Amid cheers and cries of "Hear! Hear!" a portly and cherubic figure rose from the opposition benches. His eyes were damp. "I most humbly express my thanks to the Prime Minister," rumbled 75-year-old Winston Churchill, "for the most kindly gesture which he has made to me. It brings...
Meanwhile, hale & hearty Winston Churchill seemed prepared to go on clear into the 21st Century, if necessary. Said Winnie, who is fond of reminding rivals that Gladstone was Prime Minister at 82: "I never leave a pub before closing time."
When the Amethyst got back to England, Simon was interned for the regulation six months' quarantine required of animals entering the country, but his grateful nation had not forgotten him. Reporters from far & wide came to see and photograph the solemn hero, and he was promised the Dickin Medal...