Word: chamberlain
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...suspect that being a Manhattan-born Knicks fan plays a major role in my complex. I grew up regaled with tales of heroics on the Garden floor--Willis Reed versus Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Bradley, Earl the Pearl, and the whole cast of characters that brought two titles to 32nd and 8th long before my conception. Becoming a fan was assumed, indeed required...
...sport where records are usually broken by only a hundredth of a second, her accomplishments are the equivalent of Joe Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak or Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in a single game...
...years between 1933 and 1939, he ensured that when the moment of final confrontation between Britain and Hitler came in 1940, he stood out as the one man in whom the nation could place its trust. He had decried the prewar appeasement policies of the Conservative leaders Baldwin and Chamberlain. When Chamberlain lost the confidence of Parliament, Churchill was installed in the premiership...
...remember British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain's return from meeting with Adolf Hitler in Munich in 1938. Chamberlain said there would be "peace for our time." And in 1939 Hitler invaded Poland and World War II began. Let us remember why we have arrived at this point with Iraq. It is because Saddam and his clique have not kept their side of the bargain reached after the Gulf War. A signature on a piece of paper is meaningless. What matters is the character of the person signing it. History repeats itself. U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan seems as naive...
...fists] Neville Chamberlain signed the Munich Agreement in 1938, ceding the Sudetenland to Germany and announcing "peace in our time." He went down in history as the personification of misguided appeasement...