Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before evacuating Moulmeingyun, Bo Moe Kyi sought out Thakin Nu's aging father, U Aung Nyein. "So you are the father of that 'rosary man' [psalm-shouter]," she said. "Please don't be frightened, sir, we give Thakin Nu our due respect, but there is nothing strange in Communists seizing from the government. As you see, we have taken 300 guns and 60,000 rupees, and now we'll leave. That is all, dear great uncle...
...lowering, leaden sky carried four assigned passengers and one hitchhiker. Captain Benjamin Scott Custer, onetime director of air safety in the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Aeronautics, now attache in Ottawa, was returning from a cruise with Canada's aircraft carrier Magnificent (TIME, Sept. 13). Captain Sir Robert Stirling-Hamilton, the Royal Navy's observer, was Custer's guest. There were two U.S. Navy pilots. And there was Master Sergeant Jerome Scalise, 50, going home to Virginia for retirement. After 30 years in the Army, Scalise knew his way around: he could get home two days...
Mutual's razzle-dazzle approach to a solemn subject brought mixed reactions. Throughout the show the audience giggled appreciatively. In Massachusetts, vacationing Sir Arthur Salter (TIME, Sept. 20) said thoughtfully: "In England we had a series of talks on atomic energy . . . but without any . . . music, applause, and the impersonation of isotopes to hold the flagging attention...
...Died. Sir (Norman Fenwick) Warren Fisher, 69, Britain's retired Permanent Secretary of the Treasury and Head of the Civil Service (1919-39); in London. Fisher was criticized for being an unconventional administrator, but he helped to modernize Britain's civil service...