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In 1946 Sir Winston Churchill, who had spoken often of European union during the war, advocated the formation of `` a kind of United States of Europe ''.
Going downstairs with the tray, Winston wished he could have given in to Miss Ada, but he knew better than to do what she said when she had that little-girl look.
In spite of the hundred things he had on his mind, Winston went and put his arm around her waist.
When he was going to town, nothing was good enough -- he had cursed at Winston once for leaving a fleck of polish on his shoelace.
Winston had been surprised at her for that.
Winston had the big straw basket ready in the hall.
`` You know what she likes, Winston '', he had said wearily, one evening in November when Winston was pulling off his overshoes.
`` She's been talking about a picture '', Winston had told him.
But Winston had persuaded him.
Winston had heard her shaking out the skirt of her new pink silk hostess gown.
The first witness, Moses Winston Mardis, 5835 Michigan Av., a real estate agent and former bail bondsman, took the stand after opening statements had been made.
He had stabilised the Allied position at the First Battle of El Alamein, but after a visit in August 1942, the Prime Minister, Winston Churchill, replaced him as C-in-C with Alexander and William Gott as commander of the Eighth Army in the Western Desert.
At one point in 1984 Winston Smith, the protagonist of Orwell's novel, tries " to remember in what year he had first heard mention of Big Brother.
Stalin had respected his agreement with Winston Churchill to not intervene, but Yugoslavia and Albania defied the USSR's advice and sent supplies during the Greek Civil War to the partisan forces of the Communist Party of Greece, the ELAS ( National Popular Liberation Army ).
The Gallipoli Campaign had been masterminded by Winston Churchill.
It was also the first full coalition in Britain since 1945, having been formed 70 years virtually to the day after the establishment of Winston Churchill's wartime coalition, although there had been the " Lib-Lab pact ", an agreement stopping short of a full coalition between the Labour and Liberal parties, from March 1977 until July 1978, when a series of by-election defeats had eroded Labour's majority of three seats which had been gained at the October 1974 election.
In 1994, Earnhardt achieved a feat that he himself had believed to be impossible – he scored his seventh Winston Cup championship, tying the legendary Richard Petty.
* Las Vegas, the 3rd race of the 2001 season, was noted for the fact that Mike Skinner, Earnhardt's teammate at Richard Childress Racing, took over Earnhardt's slot in the No Bull 5 million dollar eligibility for this race since Earnhardt had qualified for the No Bull 5 prize after his final victory in the 2000 Winston 500 at Talladega.
The gunboats were in support at the Battle of Omdurman, where Beatty made the acquaintance of Winston Churchill who had become a cavalry officer in Beatty's father's old regiment, the 4th Hussars, and had there learnt his family history.
" At the event ceremony, director John Ford announced that Capra had also received the Order of British Empire ( OBE ) on the recommendation of Winston Churchill.

Winston and heard
Other examples of storytelling voice-overs can be heard in Annie Hall, Gattaca, Fight Club, Megamind, Ratatouille, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron, Tangled, The Magic School Bus, The Emperor's New Groove, Kronk's New Groove, Blade Runner, The Rugrats Movie, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, How to Train Your Dragon, Moulin Rouge !, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Young Winston, Rugrats, Raising Arizona, Goodfellas, Clash of the Titans, and Star Quest: The Odyssey.
When Elizabeth's grandmother, Queen Mary, heard of this suggestion, she informed British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and he later advised the Queen to issue a royal proclamation declaring that the royal house was to remain known as the House of Windsor.
It features a verse about Winston Churchill, and was heard in the film Young Winston.
Having heard of Abdullah's plans, Winston Churchill invited Abdullah to a famous " tea party " where he convinced Abdullah to stay put and not attack Britain's allies, the French.
While some of the blue yodels heard on late 1920s Race recordings-those by the Mississippi Sheiks, for example-probably do owe something to Jimmie Rodgers ' phenomenal success, others-like Billie Young's When They Get Lovin ' They's Gone ( accompanied by Jelly Roll Morton on Victor 23339, 1930 ), Lottie Kimbrough and Winston Holmes ' Lost Lover Blues ( Gennett 6607, 1928 ), and Clint Jones ' Mississippi Woman Blues and Blue Valley Blues ( Okeh 8587, 1928 )-seem more deeply connected to these precedent recordings by Charles Anderson, and to the venerable line of African-American yodelers they represent.
His attack on a clause of the Finance Act 1930 drew much praise from both Liberal and Conservative politicians, including Winston Churchill, who said that " I have rarely heard a speech more precisely directed at the object under debate, more harmoniously attuned to the character of Committee discussion, than the excellent statement the Honourable and learned Gentleman has just made ".
When Winston Churchill, formerly head of the Landships Committee but now a backbench MP, heard of the tanks use and performance at Flers-Courcelette he responded: " My poor ' land battleships ' have been let off prematurely on a petty scale ".
A few months later, on January 26, 1978, following further surprising game losses, Peter Winston vanished and was never heard from again.

Winston and because
In Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell's novel set in a totalitarian London, main character Winston Smith initially dislikes Julia, the woman he comes to love, because of " the atmosphere of hockey-fields and cold baths and community hikes and general clean-mindedness which she managed to carry about with her.
You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage. Or this insight from Winston Churchill: Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities ... because it is the quality that guarantees all others.
Similarly, though Sir Winston Churchill was first elected in 1900, he did not become Father of the House until 1959 because he lost his seat in 1922, not returning to the Commons until 1924.
Ein christliches Trauerspiel ( The Deputy, a Christian Tragedy, translated by Richard & Clara Winston, 1964 ), that caused controversy because of its criticism of Pope Pius XII's role in World War II.
Given its strategic value, Winston Churchill would later quote a telegram he sent to the Chief of the Imperial General Staff on 4 June 1940: " To lose Crete because we had not sufficient bulk of forces there would be a crime.
Shortly thereafter, Jimmy Winston was released from the band because of a clash of personalities with the rest of the group and a lack of musical talent.
In a 2000 interview, Kenney Jones stated the reason Winston was fired from the band was because " He ( Winston ) got above his station and tried to compete with Steve Marriott.
Reith asked for the government view and was advised not to allow the broadcast because he suspected if it went ahead it would give the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Winston Churchill, an excuse to commandeer the BBC.
Plumb wrote: " This history will endure ; not only because Sir Winston has written it, but also because of its own inherent virtues — its narrative power, its fine judgment of war and politics, of soldiers and statesmen, and even more because it reflects a tradition of what Englishmen in the hey-day of their empire thought and felt about their country's past.
When the Japanese invaded Thailand on December 8, 1941, ( because of the international date line this occurred an hour and a half before Pearl Harbor ),< ref > Churchill, Winston S. The Second World War, Vol 3, The Grand Alliance, p. 548 Cassell & Co. Ltd, 1950 </ em ></ ref > hesitant Phibunsongkhram was reluctantly forced to order a general ceasefire after just one day of resistance and allow the Japanese armies to use the country as a base for their invasions of Burma and Malaya.
At the beginning of the war, the U. S. was neutral in the conflict because of opposition to imperialism, because the Việt Minh had recently been their allies, and because most of its attention was focused on Europe where Winston Churchill argued an Iron Curtain had fallen.
" According to David Winston, because wisdom is God's " creative agent ," she must be intimately identified with God.
National Party leader Don Brash said the choice was " astonishing ", because " the whole region distrusts Winston Peters – Australia, Asia [...].
At the height of his NASCAR Winston Cup success in the early 1980s, fans often booed Waltrip, in large part because of his success on the track defeating more established drivers with large fan followings, but also because of his open criticism of NASCAR, his aggressive " take no prisoners ", " win at all costs " approach to driving, and his public attempt to be released from his driving contract with DiGard in 1980, a year in which Waltrip won five NASCAR Winston Cup races.
However, because Banks remained an Italian citizen and would have been interned in the United Kingdom, she was forced to leave Britain for North America during the war, at the instruction of Winston Churchill, who told her to " Make American Dollars, not British Pounds ," which she did in aid of the Navy League and the Spitfire Fund.
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