Definition: A feeling of resentful anger.

Example: In a letter from Clementine to Winston, on 27 June 1940,

“Besides you won’t get the best results by irascibility & rudeness. They will either breed either dislike or a slave mentality.”

Definition: The dishonesty of a charlatan.

Example: Jock Colville and the king’s assistant private secretary Tommy Lascelles, lunching together one day, debated ‘whether very great men usually had a touch of charlatanism in them,’ and of course they were thinking of the prime minister.

This episode] showed Churchill at his best: accessible, imaginative, penetrating, decisive and always suggestible about technological innovation.

The catch block is not reachable, because CFGetTypeID does not throw exception. It actually caused a EXC_BAD_ACCESS, which crashes the application.

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    @try {
        CFGetTypeID(NULL);
    }  @catch   (NSException * e) {
            NSLog(@"Exception: %@", e);
    }
    @finally {
            NSLog(@"finally");
    }

Example: It is often remarked that Churchill had acolytes, but few intimates.