Word: winstone
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Former Vice President Mondale. now practicing law with the well-connected Washington firm of Winston & Strawn, has been on the move hustling money for his 1984 campaign and expressing the quite novel theory that Reagan had misread the American mood. From the halls of academe, Historian Arthur Schlesinger Jr., an unreconstructed Kennedyite, endorsed the view that Reagan's budget cutting is a "dangerous course...
...Geyelin, 58, and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance, 64. But when the vote was announced last week-gasp -Kissinger was dead last. Said one council member: "It just stood out on the ballot-a chance to vote against Kissinger. It was too good to pass up." Council President Winston Lord, 43, a former Kissinger protégé, had a different view. Said he: "It's really a fluke...
During World War I, however, Britain went off the gold standard in order to make it easier to finance its military effort. In 1925 Winston Churchill, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, returned the country to the gold standard, believing that such a step would help restore the British Empire to its former preeminence. But he made the mistake of setting the value of the pound at its prewar gold price, which did not take account of high wartime inflation. This was a major cause of the nationwide general strike that virtually immobilized the economy in 1926. Indeed some historians believe...
...sits in a chair on the stage of the Kennedy Center's Eisenhower The ater, Ralph Richardson somewhat resembles Graham Sutherland's portrait of Winston Churchill. His legs are squared apart and appear sturdily embedded in stone. His arms are welded to the arm rests, yet they seem mobilized to catapult him into action. His eyes are banked fires set in a sulky sullen face a trifle mangled by time. As with Churchill, a pixie lurks beneath Richardson's countenance, momentarily threatening to bolt into some unpredictable bit of mischief...
...committee's rejection of Southern, along with its refusal to grant her an extension, prompted Wright to file the complaint with the EEOC and to consider suing the university, Winston D. Kendall, Wright's attorney, said in April. He added that Wright would not alter her original choice of Southern to serve on the grievance committee...