Word: offing
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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I have not always been wrong about the future of events and, if you will permit me. I shall inscribe some of these words as my testament because I should like to be held accountable for them in years which I shall not see.
With that request of Winston Spencer Churchill, taken from a wartime speech. ABC this week began a television series worthy of its subject and his words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World...
Skillfully selected and edited, the series' opener traced both Churchill and his country through the years that bridged the wars, from bursting shells among the trenches of 1918 to the first aerial bombardments of 1940. One fine vignette followed another: Churchill sitting in a wheelchair in Manhattan, bandages on...
If the story has dramatic continuity and a controlled sense of authority, it is because the producers have hired an impressive list of expert writers, from Quentin Reynolds (The Battle of Britain), William L. Shirer (Berlin Diary) and Richard Tregaskis (Guadalcanal Diary), to Hollywood Scenarists Beirne Lay Jr. (12 O...
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