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William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas
councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Volume 1:
He believed that of all languages English was was incomparably superior. On his tongue it was.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of
the essence of American journalism is vulgarity divested of truth.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
I like to live in the past. I don't think people are going to get much fun in the future
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of
Byron wrote his shortest and most eloquent poem as a testament to a titled woman who had taken leave of her husband for a nine-month romp with him: Caroline Lamb, Goddamn.
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William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A
oceanography, meteorology, and upper-atmosphere physics,
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion Box Set: Winston
It was Churchill who called John Foster Dulles "the only bull who brings his own china shop with him," and who coined the progression, "dull, duller, Dulles.
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Visions of
The key to successful extramarital sex, therefore, was discretion. Mrs. Patrick Campbell, perhaps the most outspoken woman in polite society, said dryly: "It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom, as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses."43
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William Manchester _ American Caesar: Douglas
Some 4,887 miles to the east of him, north of the
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William Manchester _ The Life and Riotous Times of
If I knew what was true, I'd be willing to sweat and strive for it, and maybe even to die for it to the tune of bugle blasts. But so far, I have not found it,
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William Manchester _ The Glory and the Dream: A
The Jap," as MacArthur called the enemy-nearly everyone else called Japanese "Nips," short for "Dai Nippon," the"
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William Manchester _ The Last Lion: Winston Spencer
Sherwood, Franklin Roosevelt's speechwriter and biographer, wrote that although Churchill's "consumption of alcohol… continued at quite regular intervals through most of his waking hours," it did so "without visible effect on his health or mental processes. Anyone who suggested he became befuddled with drink obviously never had to become involved in an argument with him on some factual problem late at night…." Churchill's drinking habits, Sherwood wrote, were "unique" and his capacity "Olympian."18 Despite his prolonged, consistent, and prodigious consumption of alcohol, Churchill was not a drunk. But neither was he a moderate social drinker,
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