Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...City's Cathedral Plaza. The demonstrators were backers of Ardito Barletta's venerable populist rival in last May's presidential election, Arnulfo Arias Madrid, 83. Arias lost the election by a mere 1,713 of the 640,000 votes cast, prompting widespread accusations of fraud. Said Winston Robles, editor of the opposition daily La Prensa: "The main problem for Nicky is one of legitimacy...
...human frame-is confirming what some people suspected long ago: the mind seems to work better when the body is firmly and comfortably supported in a reclining position. Thomas Jefferson liked to read and write while taking his ease on a specially adapted chaise longue. Mark Twain and Winston Churchill often worked lying back, their heads supported, facing their books or writing pads at eye level. In such a position, they were able to prevent many a pain in the neck...
...Queen Mary is berthed in the harbor at Long Beach, a tourist attraction. She has a restaurant astern called Sir Winston's. The menu is in French. Under dessert you find "tuile aux fraises, "with no English translation. You summon a waiter, whose name is Juan. "French taco," Juan explains, "with strawberries...
Looking back on his career, he points to Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill as two men who deserve the most respect. "Roosevelt led us out of the depression and saved the country and Winston Churchill stood alone with a tiny Island behind him," he says. "I have great admiration for President Truman, but I'll skip over him because people assume I'm biased," he adds, in a reference to his father-in-law. Daniel is almost as well known as the husband of Margaret Truman as he is for his journalistic exploits...
Daniel has equally humorous stories to tell about Winston Churchill, British lords and ladies, Khrushchev, Castro, the CIA, and even some movie stars. The last few pages are devoted to Margaret Truman, for whom Daniel appears to have great respect. Daniel even manages to take a shot at Harvard in the midst; on Aga Khan IV '59--who is revered as a god by his subjects--he writes: "You might say he is the only divinity with a degree from Harvard, at though some other Harvard graduates have intimations of immortality...