Word: winstons
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...conference attracted a few mayors who have made political history, including Norm Rice of Seattle and John Daniels of New Haven, both the first Black mayors of their respective cities, and Karen Vialle of Tacoma, Wash., and Martha Wood of Winston-Salem, N.C., both the first female mayors of their cities...
When they met in the Soviet Crimea in February 1945 to plan the end of World War II, Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin also set the stage for the long-running drama that may dominate next month's meeting off Malta. In effect, if not by intent, Roosevelt and Churchill sanctioned Soviet dominance over Eastern Europe. Now, 44 years later, George Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev must grapple with the disintegration of that Soviet supremacy...
...August 1941, five months before the United States entered World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt '04 met with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill aboard a battleship offNewfoundland, Canada, and proclaimed an AtlanticCharter providing for freedom of the seas andleading to the arming of merchant ships...
...relationship between Roosevelt and Marshall was not always easy, as this stylishly written book makes clear. To find out what schemes the sometimes impetuous President was cooking up with Winston Churchill, Marshall often had to ask Britain's chief military representative in Washington. He would then protest loudly, putting out a restraining hand that benefited both the President and the country. In his own way each man was a genius without whom the war would have been even longer and more terrible...
...cigarette producers often try to light up the female and teenage market, a strategy that particularly angers health experts. In Taiwan street peddlers hired by U.S. firms hand out free cigarette samples at discos. Marketers for R.J. Reynolds last year planned to charge five empty packets of its Winston cigarettes as admission to a rock concert in Taiwan but dropped the idea in the face of a public outcry...