Word: winstons
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...decades since the end of World War II. The Germans won. After the failure of the Normandy invasion, a humiliated General Dwight D. Eisenhower retreated into retirement, Winston Churchill fled to exile in Canada, and virtually all Europe came under the domination of the Nazis. An Albert Speer-designed monument to the "thousand-year Reich" now dominates Berlin, the SS has become a peacetime police force, and nobody has heard of the Holocaust. But years of cold war with the U.S. -- and a stubborn guerrilla war with the Soviets in the East -- have begun to drain the German economy. Hitler...
After all, Winston Churchill once said that "if you aren't a liberal at twenty you have no heart." (He did, of course, finish by arguing that those who weren't conservative by age 40 had no brains...
Sanders Theatre has been the site of remarkable addresses by visitors, including: Edward, Prince of Wales later King Edward VII); British Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill; President Dwight D. Eisenhower; and Carrie Nation, among others...
...Winston Churchill's famous invasion speech would not have worked had he not turned off the microphone before commenting that he had no idea what to use for ammunition other than empty liquor bottles, Ryan said...
Money matters have always soured Pamela Harriman's relations with her stepchildren. "Pam did not do me any great favors as a stepmother," says Brooke Hayward, whose father Leland Hayward was Pamela's second husband. (Averell was her third; her first was Winston Churchill's son.) "She's greedy beyond the usual human greed." Clifford says Averell's family were deeply unhappy in 1971 when Pamela, then 51, married Averell, then 80. Adds Clifford: "He was generous to Mrs. Harriman during his lifetime, and in his will. That was resented by members of his family...