Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Four days later Patton prayed in a different vein: "Sir, this is Patton again and I beg to report complete progress . . . Sir, it seems to me that You have been much better informed about the situation than I was, because it was that awful weather which I cursed so much which made it possible for the German army to commit suicide. That, Sir, was a brilliant military move and I bow humbly to a supreme military genius...
Hamlet. Shakespeare and Sir Laurence Olivier collaborate on a film classic (TIME, June...
...Died. Sir Malcolm Campbell, 63, internationally known speed king; of a cardiac condition and stroke; in Reigate, England. A racing enthusiast from boyhood, Sir Malcolm (King George V knighted him in 1931) tried bicycles, motorcycles and airplanes before turning to automobiles in 1910. Driving his famed "Bluebird" over the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah in 1935, he was the first to crack the five-mile-a-minute mark (he hit 301.1292 m.p.h.*); he switched to speedboats, and four years later, on Lake. Coniston, England, established a record 141.74 m.p.h., which has never been equaled...