Word: winstone
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...Izvestia, the Soviet government newspaper, launched a rhetorical counterstrike at Reagan, accusing him of turning "Washington into a dangerous hotbed of thermonuclear confrontation." Nor is there any way to exorcise from deterrence what Reagan called "the specter of retaliation." That specter is in the nature of nuclear weapons. As Winston Churchill observed nearly three decades ago: "Safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation...
...Truman house in Independence. One batch has been collated by Indiana University Professor Robert Ferrell. It covers the first two years of Truman's courtship, when he described wrestling ornery calves, and the first year of his presidency, when he wrestled with Joseph Stalin and Winston Churchill at the Potsdam conference. The most significant revelation: Truman, contrary to some speculation, was sincere in his effort to get the Soviet Union involved in fighting Japan. Among the nuggets...
...WHEN WINSTON CHURCHILL SPOKE of an iron curtain descending between East and West, he was referring to both a literal and figurative barrier. A decade after the speech, the Berlin Wall had been erected, tangibly separating Europe in two. But even as Churchill put forth his image, a symbolic partition was already in place, preventing the West from getting a good, hard look at the East. That partition, "built" after the Russian Revolution in 1917, remains as sturdy today as it was during the British war hero's time...
Unfortunately, Winston Churchill, the most persuasive of the Allied leaders, loved feint and diversion. "Periphery pecking," the Americans called it, a strategy they felt wasted lives, time and matériel even as Germany rushed ahead with new weapons, including a possible atomic bomb. Churchill got his way in North Africa, Sicily and Italy, but Wedemeyer's heartland strategy was what focused Allied might in the decisive battle. To this day Wedemeyer believes that the Allies squandered a splendid opportunity by not invading in 1943. Had they occupied Europe and stopped the Soviets at their border, he says...
John Nani and Winston, Nishona, who won Tony Awards for their performances in the 1975 production of the two-man play, are currently in jail in South Africa, Glover says...