"David J Windisch" wrote
Reading the mail, I assert that your unsnipped statement has been
**quite**
literally accepted, and applied, by many imaginations.

It is akin to writing, eg, that "Mr Churchill spared nothing to win
WWII."
;o)
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It is certainly true that Winnie spared nothing to lose the Battle of
the Dardanelles in WW1.
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Reg.