Word: winstons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stamps commemorating Rhodesia's 1965 unilateral declaration of independence from Britain have skyrocketed in value. A set of three coins minted on the first anniversary of independence, originally worth $17, is now selling for $1,400 in Rhodesia. A one-shilling, threepence stamp bearing the portrait of Winston Churchill fetches $230 in Salisbury because it is overprinted with the date of Rhodesia's independence and a price increase to five shillings...
...researcher and writer grew; T.S. Eliot sought his articles on Marxism, presented with a historian's detachment; W.H. Auden befriended him. By the '50s he was famous. Today Rowse laces his conversation with recollections of the mighty: "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt spoke much clearer English than Winston, who had a speech impediment as a child and always lisped somewhat...
...obnoxious one: cocky, fool-hardy American punk bopping around the Mideast with his girl and his stash. Played by Brad Davis in his flashy feature film debut, Billy comes off as a hopeless amateur in the contraband business, the kind of sunglassed shmuck who chews gum and smokes a Winston at the same time while a suspicious customs agent checks his bags. Naturally, Billy does not read the papers; otherwise he would have known about the tight security checks at Istanbul airport caused by a rash of hijackings and terrorist bombings in the summer of 1970. His smuggling escapade comes...
Leslie said that Jennie's niece, Clare Sheridan, who was Winston Churchill's only female cousin, was able to "battle out of the same world that held Jennie in its clutches." A sculptress and journalist who journeyed to Moscow and lived in the Kremlin during the Russian Revolution, Clare "was the first great romantic career women...
Lord Charles Spencer-Churchill, Sir Winston's cousin, who has decided to go into the men's wear manufacturing business: "A Churchill has to do whatever comes along...