Word: misters
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...piquant appearances. While chatting with Unger across the street from the Saudi embassy in Washington, he is approached and quizzed by Secret Service agents. Hearing from Rep. John Conyers that no member of Congress had read the complete Patriot Act before voting for it, he hires a Mister Softee truck and patrols downtown D.C. reading the act to members of Congress over a loudspeaker. Toward the end, he tries to get Congressmen to enlist their sons in the military. Surprise: no volunteers...
Kennedy said that “at a time when blacks were never called Mister...Thurgood Marshall was always Mister Marshall...
...felt like calling out, “Hey Mister Robber Dude, did it ever occur to you that maybe I needed my naiveté? Well, uh, I did!” Look: bad things happen to good people, right? Ever since God placed bets on Job, we’ve all accepted that. Or at least we do on an intellectual level. But to survive in the real world from day to day, we also have to suppress our cynicism. In every adult, one of the most tenacious stowaways from childhood is a fierce belief that life should be fair...
...Mister Roberts...
...SPENT YEARS AS A CORPORATE BIG SHOT, AND NOW YOU'RE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY. WHAT WAS YOUR FAVORITE SUMMER JOB? Operating a Mister Softee ice cream truck. That lasted three months. And, yes, I tasted what I was selling. I like that product...