Word: winstons
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...blocked account in the U.S., meaning the money cannot be transferred to any other country. For its part, Simon & Schuster is hardly worried about Castro's ability to fill three books. The Cuban leader has already generated more text in speeches and interviews than Joseph Stalin, Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill combined...
Other contenders for the council race are CCA-endorsed Renae Scott and rent control advocate Michael Turk. Also taking out papers were Lewis Armistead, Manuel Bonitatibus, Ronald Campbell, Elio Centrella, Vincent Dixon, Winston Forde, Kenneth Reeves, and George Spartichino, William Walsh...
...with John Gielgud, who plays an animal- rights enthusiast dangerously disrupting the shoot. And there is another good performance by Cheryl Campbell as a coolly amoral aristocrat. Julian Bond's script is curtly literate, Alan Bridges' direction is more Masterpiece Theatre than The Rules of the Game. Still, as Winston Churchill once said, "The old world in its sunset was fair to see," and some of that ironic glow lights The Shooting Party...
Other Presidents--indeed, other leaders of many nations and many stripes --have found their ability to perform that trick sorely tested with changing circumstances. Sometimes their comeuppance has been temporary, sometimes permanent. Winston Churchill, for example, was the man of the hour for Britain and the alliance during World War II because of a magnificent stubbornness and attachment to basic, simple principles. Those same qualities, when applied to the postwar world, no longer seemed so magnificent; and Churchill's constituents, for all their gratitude, turned...
...destroyer could leave skid-marks, (H.M.S.) Kelly would have disfigured every sea in which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from India and tried to prevent it. But religion had its customary disastrous effect on politics. Hindus...