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Pow|ell, An|tho|ny

(1905-2000) a British writer who wrote a series of 12 novels A Dance to the Music of Time, which describes the lives of a group of upper-class friends over a long period.

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Powell, Co|lin

(1937- ) a US military leader who became famous during the Gulf War and who was the first black person to become Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (=leader of all the US military forces) . In 2001 President George W Bush made him US ↑Secretary of State.

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Powell, E|noch

(1912-98) a British politician in the ↑Conservative Party, who was a government minister in the early 1960s, and later left the Conservative Party and became an MP in Northern Ireland. He made a speech in 1968 in which he said that if the UK allowed too many black people to come and live there, there would be fighting and "rivers of blood" in the streets. Many people criticized him for this speech, because they believed that it encouraged ↑racist attitudes.

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Powell, Michael

(1905-1990), a British film ↑director, who made most of his important films with the Hungarian-born director Emeric Pressburger (1902-1988). They included The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943), A Matter of Life and Death (1946), The Red Shoes (1948), and The Battle of the River Plate (1956). Powell also directed Peeping Tom (1960), the ↑controversial film of a murderer who filmed his victims as he killed them.