Word: winston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...basement laundry room, where police had been besieging him for hours. They dared not use force, because the man was threatening to kill the two-year-old girl whom he was holding as hostage. What really gripped Pone's attention was the gunman's name: Winston Mitchell. For Mitchell was one of his patients...
...could accuse the Chicago cops of discrimination. They savagely attacked hippies, yippies, New Leftists, revolutionaries, dissident Democrats, newsmen, photographers, passersby, clergymen and at least one cripple. Winston Churchill's journalist grandson got roughed up. Playboy's Hugh Hefner took a whack on the backside (see PRESS). The police even victimized a member of the British Parliament, Mrs. Anne Kerr, a vacationing Laborite who was Maced outside the Conrad Hilton and hustled off to the lockup...
...banner headlines, 1968 does not begin to compare with, say, 1848, when seismic revolutions cracked the old European order in the Austrian Empire, France, Germany, Italy, Denmark and The Netherlands. To date, the 20th century's most fateful year was 1914, when the West plunged into what Winston Churchill called "another Thirty Years' War." That semipermanent conflict spanned such events as the Russian Revolution (1917), the Wall Street crash (1929), the rise of Nazism and the New Deal (1933). Indeed, 1968 should hardly unnerve those who recall 1939 and its sickening slide into World...
...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence...
...SPLENDID PAUPER, by Allen Andrews. The biography of Moreton Frewen, Winston Churchill's froward uncle and a born loser who went from one financial debacle to another with style, imagination and diligence...