Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...race between population and food supply, said Sir John, population is winning, "and we do not know how to stop it." He pointed out once more that world population has increased almost 200 million since 1939. Harvests that would have seemed bountiful ten years ago are inadequate now. Sir John said that, for his part, he was going home to his farm...
...successor at FAO, Norris E. Dodd, retiring U.S. Under Secretary of Agriculture, was ready to take over where Sir John was leaving off. Said Dodd: "My great hope is that ... I can march forward on the path he marked...
...after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
...Sir Thomas Beecham called off a scheduled concert of British music, explained: "When it comes down to the anvil of reality, there never has been a public for British music. Let us face the fact...
Polkas & Waltzes. When tomorrow dawned, Colonel Sir Arthur Fremantle, British observer with the Confederate Army, was sitting in the top of a tree, looking out over the field. Under the same tree sat Generals Robert E. Lee and A. P. Hill, planning the day's action and "assisting their deliberations by the truly American custom of whittling sticks." Shells and bullets began to hiss and whine once more; but in his Gettysburg garden Sallie Broadhead's husband doggedly "picked a mess of beans . . . [and] persevered until he had picked all, for he declared the Rebels should not have...