Word: wente
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...even as these brave words were appearing in print, King and Cudlipp were taking stock-and making changes designed to revive the Mirror's appeal to youth. Out last week went the Page One slogan that the Mirror had used for 14 years: "Forward with the People." Out too went the Mirror's concession to middle-aged readers: a serious political column by Labor M.P. Richard Grossman, who, with help from the Mirror's Cudlipp, had also written the scathing but ineffective campaign broadside called "The Tory Swindle." And finally, out went a British newspaper institution...
...days it was touch and go. First Denett seemed the weaker, then Jeanett sank alarmingly, with mucus threatening to choke her. Surgeons cut a hole in her neck and passed a silver tube into her windpipe to provide extra oxygen and speed drainage. Next day Jeanett went into unexplained spasms. Adrenaline-like drugs, and her own vitality, pulled her through that crisis. Last week, with infinite relief, the University of Oregon doctors pronounced the operation a success. Their greatest immediate danger past, both babies were doing well...
...estimate, he made $7,000,000 in movies ("just for swinging a sword, sitting on a horse and yelling, 'Charge!' "), and riotously squandered it as it came. The greatest concession he made to convention was to marry three times, and each union went out the window along with his roving eye. His taste for young flesh led to three statutory rape scandals, plus a juicy paternity suit-but the older he got, the more he seemed a cardboard sinner. Finally a bloated travesty of his younger self, he was typecast in his last three films as a drunk...
...Partly as a result, Spain's King Philip II, known as "the Prudent," abandoned prudence long enough to let himself be talked into a campaign designed to cut Protestant Elizabeth down to size. The project, tersely referred to as The Enterprise, was hastily begun. From the start, nothing went right with armaments, provisions, recruiting, and 3½ months be fore the Armada was to sail, its aged admiral died. King Philip unaccountably replaced him with the Duke of Medina Sidonia who objected miserably that "I know by experience of the little I have been at sea that...
...July 29 the Armada was reported off Plymouth,* and Sir Francis Drake cockily went on with his game of bowls, supposedly boasted that he had time to finish and beat the Spaniards too. Of the running sea fight that began next day, Historian Mattingly observes: "No naval campaign in previous history, and none afterward until the advent of the aircraft carrier, involved so many fresh and incalculable factors...