The war years saw him work on the prosthetics used to transform Roger Livesey into a balding, pot-bellied blusterer in The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp.

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He reckons that - by putting all his life savings into the pot - he and his partner have enough cash to hold out for a year before they will go bankrupt.

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We then cynically tagged along with China in supporting Pol Pot and his Khmer Rouge because the guerrillas made life hard for the Vietnamese occupiers.

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Ask yourself: Do you really need your life insurance premiums back, as opposed to some other pot of money at retirement?

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In a court, a lawyer could seek the truth about Pol Pot and the politics of his gang, rather than allow his life to pass into myth.

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In fact, it was the first thing I won in my life, ever, apart from a book about how to grow pot plants.

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One of his first employees was Douglas Ginsburg, who later in life would have to abandon his nomination by President Reagan to the Supreme Court because he had smoked pot.

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