Word: winstone
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...inspectors found it "much decayed, the Floors & Chimneys much sunk." In 1781 the Board of Works bluntly called it "dangerous." In 1832, the year of the great Reform Bill, Earl Grey had to move out of it because it had become uninhabitable, and even Winston Churchill, no man to take a British institution lightly, found it "shaky." Last week, in a special White Paper, Her Majesty's government announced that No. 10 is in worse shape than ever...
Covering Middle East hot spots through a glass darkly, high-spirited Journalist Randolph Churchill, son of Sir Winston, managed to set a short-tour record (45 minutes) for strife-torn Beirut. Lumbering into the Palm Beach Hotel after curfew, Randy demanded 1) a room, 2) whisky, 3) an explanation from the British embassy's second secretary for not meeting him at the airport. When the secretary explained about curfew, Churchill decided to go higher, hung up with "I'll telephone the ambassador-you're not much use." Hoisting another round, he ran afoul of an aide...
...Gaulle last week offered the Cross of the Order of the Liberation to his old wartime sparring partner, Sir Winston Churchill. The order is held by only two heads of state-Morocco's Mohammed V and Dwight Eisenhower...
...midst of a top-hole week-in which a family history, The Churchills, by Historian A. L. Rowse (TIME. May 12), drew critical tribute from British reviewers, and France offered him a high decoration (see FOREIGN NEWS)-Elder (83) Statesman Sir Winston Churchill, with cigar, cane and topper, plunked down in the middle of the Ascot paddock to keep an eye on his Tudor Monarch in the $30,660 Gold Cup. Souring the big day, horse failed man as Tudor Monarch finished fourth behind the American-owned, Irish-trained mare Gladness...
...Crusade in Europe, General Eisenhower noted: "I personally liked General de Gaulle, as I recognized in him many fine qualities. We felt, however, that these qualities were marred by hypersensitiveness and an extraordinary stubbornness in matters which appeared inconsequential to us." But throughout the war, Eisenhower agreed with Winston Churchill that De Gaulle, for all his troublesome drawbacks, had not only personal but national attributes as the indomitable spirit of French resistance and French honor...