Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Unlike Apocalypse Now or The Deerhunter, war in Gallipoli does not resemble an all-consuming vortex. Instead, war, specifically Winston Churchill's ill-fated Gallipoli campaign into Ottoman Turkey, waits patiently at the end of the film. For Gallipoli concerns getting to the front and the adventures en route as much as the conflict on the 60-mile-long Turkish peninsula...
Reagan watched him leave and said. "Well, as that great champion and great American, Winston Churchill, once said. 'He can run, but we'll find him. Now is there anything else...
...grandees in her Cabinet and pushed out the popular Conservative Party chairman, shuffled around six other senior ministers, elevated three loyalists to the Cabinet, then fired four junior ministers. In all, 40 posts were involved in the shakeup. Out went Lord Soames, the leader of the House of Lords, Winston Churchill's son-in-law and a pillar of the Tory establishment, who as the last governor-general of Rhodesia had brought plaudits to the Thatcher government by skillfully guiding the former colony through its elections and emergence as independent Zimbabwe. Thatcher, who felt that Soames had ineptly handled...
Another paperback bestseller, The Second Official I Hate Cats Book (Holt Rinehart Winston; $3.95), makes no pretense whatever of liking Felis. The animals pictured by Cartoonist Skip Morrow are uniformly fat and dumb-and alive-and they get a variety of comeuppances in ways that manage to be amiably humorous. The two I Hate books have 575,000 copies in print. They too have stirred a barrage of virulently pro-feline protest mail...
...right honorable gentleman is a liar.' It is also unparliamentary to say, 'The right honorable gentleman is lying!' It is, however, acceptable to say, 'The right honorable gentleman told a lie!' This, however, sounds equally not nice, and it was Winston Churchill who preferred a different definition. He said: 'The right honorable gentleman committed a terminological inexactitude...