1) “finest hour”
FINEST HOUR: www.wepsite.de/Churchill,finest_hour.htm
2) compelling
3) unresolved
MORE SPEECHES: http://www.fiftiesweb.com/great-speeches.htm
4) the jury is still out on sb.
5) judicious
6) fair-minded
7) shortcomings
8) to view sth. in … perspective
9) by contrast, COMMA
10) unashamed(ly)
11) prosecuting counsel
12) to find fault with
13) to demolish (or: explode) a
myth
14) to assess/the assessment
15) to be out of sympathy with
16) subject (here)
17) insufferably
18) self-centered
19) consistent
↔
inconsistent
20) eugenicist
21) elitist
22) for personal gratification
IMPROVE YOUR WORDPOWER: “gratuitous”
23) (with) cavalier indifference
24) by turns
25) (to be) economical with the truth
26) (to be) profligate with falsehoods
IMPROVE YOUR WORDPOWER: “prodigal” [not ”prodigious”]
27) verdict
↔
sentence
28) industry (here)
29) belligerent
30) to run … affairs
DROPPING
THE PILOT (original
cartoon):
31) to be acclaimed as
Emperor
William II dismisses Bismarck
32) with flaws and faults to match (cartoon by Sir John
Tenniel, Punch, 1890)
33) in an era of decline
“DROPPING THE PILOT”: Churchill loses the general election in 1945
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