Finest hour

Meaning

Noun

●

A

or a

when an especially

,

, or effective set of

is performed.

●

June

18

1940,

“Churchill

Says

Hope

Not

Dead”,

in

San

Jose

Evening

News,

retrieved

2013-08-28,

page

1: Winston

Churchill

proclaimed

today

to

his

Parliament

and

people

the

beginning

of

"the

battle

for

Britain"

[…]

"Let

us

brace

ourselves

to

our

duty,

and

so

bear

ourselves

that,

if

the

British

Empire

and

Commonwealth

last

for

a

thousand

years,

men

will

still

say:

‘This

was

their

finest

hour.’"

June

18

1940,

“Churchill

Says

Hope

Not

Dead”,

in

San

Jose

Evening

News,

retrieved

2013-08-28,

page

1

Winston Churchill

to his Parliament and people the

of "the

for Britain" […] "Let us

ourselves to our

, and so

ourselves that, if the British Empire and Commonwealth last for

years,

will still

: ‘This was their

hour.’"

●

August

2

1979,

Peter

Calamai,

“Analysis:

It's

brave

words

and

bad

vibrations”,

in

Edmonton

Journal,

Canada,

retrieved

2013-08-28,

page

D20: Commonwealth

countries

were

called

upon

to

rise

to

their

finest

hour

against

the

double

crises

of

Rhodesia

and

global

poverty.

August

2

1979,

Peter

Calamai,

“Analysis:

It's

brave

words

and

bad

vibrations”,

in

Edmonton

Journal,

Canada,

retrieved

2013-08-28,

page

D20

Commonwealth countries were

to

to their

against the double

of Rhodesia and global poverty.

●

Oct

13

2010,

Tim

Padgett,

“Chile

Celebrates

As

Miners

Emerge

from

Underground”,

in

Time,

retrieved

2013-08-28: The

U.S.

exulted

40

years

ago

when

it

brought

its

three

Apollo

13

astronauts

back

safely

from

a

disaster

in

space.

Early

Wednesday

morning,

Chile

[…]

can

celebrate

its

own

finest

hour

as

it

rescues

its

33

miners

from

the

abyss.

Oct

13

2010,

Tim

Padgett,

“Chile

Celebrates

As

Miners

Emerge

from

Underground”,

in

Time,

retrieved

2013-08-28

The U.S.

40 years

when it

its three Apollo 13

back

from a

in

. Early Wednesday

, Chile […] can

its own

as it

its 33

from the abyss.

●

2023-10-19, Daniel Boffey,

Tom Tugendhat, “Israel

BBC of ‘modern

’ over

of

”, in The Guardian, →ISSN: Speaking on Radio 4’s Today

on Thursday

, the UK’s

ecurity

, Tom Tugendhat,

“irresponsible

” and

aid it had not been “the BBC’s

hour”.

2023-10-19, Daniel Boffey,

Tom Tugendhat, “Israel

BBC of ‘modern

’ over

of

”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Speaking on Radio 4’s Today

on Thursday

, the UK’s

ecurity

, Tom Tugendhat,

“irresponsible

” and

aid it had not been “the BBC’s

hour”.

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