Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...courageously stepped forward to help fill the vast gulf that his death leaves, a woman who has taken upon herself to be mother to four young children and at the same time to replace her husband as minister to the soul of a troubled society. Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege to introduce to you, Mrs. Coretta Scott King...
...first press conference after the battle of Chicago, Mayor Richard Daley was gruff and to the point. "Gentlemen," he said last week, thrusting his jaw out for angry emphasis, "get this thing straight for once and for all. The policeman isn't there to create dis order. The policeman is there to pre serve disorder...
...Edward Kennedy and Julian Bond are the two men who, for me at least, make the convention worth remembering and the future worth considering. They are gentle men and gentlemen. And 1972 is only 48 months away...
...countdown came over an amplified telephone hookup beamed from Cleveland. "One minute before race time, gentlemen," said the starter. In Pasadena, Calif., the three-man team starting from California Institute of Technology climbed into their red-and-white Volkswagen bus, which sported a sign reading "Socket-to-me." Across the continent, in Cambridge, Mass., a two-man competing team slipped into their modified white Corvair. Said the starter: "Get ready to throw your switches." Then, with a hum rather than the usual roar, the Great Electric-Car Race...
...view of Mencken overlooks much in his work that was malicious. That is not hard to do, considering the Gargantuan proportions of his sense of fun. It is difficult to quibble about a man who, as an agnostic, prepared himself for the possibility of Judgment Day with the statement, "Gentlemen, I was wrong...