Word: sir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Said Sir Denys Bray, British Foreign Secretary, in 1923: "Come what may, civilization must be made to penetrate these inaccessible mountains or we must admit that there is no solution to the Waziristan problem...
Alfred de Marigny, acquitted by a Nassau court in 1943 of the charge of killing his wealthy father-in-law, Sir Harry Oakes, ran an ad in the Montreal Star, offering for sale: "Entire worldly possessions . . . pending departure for parts unknown...
...faster than his own trousers. Four times in the past year of hope I have been forced to buy a new pair of braces, and after each occasion the braces have broken irretrievably within three months. I have tried them plastic and I have tried them un-plastic. Can Sir Stafford Cripps, on whom all our hopes are now fixed, tell me what...
...Sir Stafford couldn't or didn't, but the Times had a word to offer. "Peace of mind," it said, "is virtually unattainable unless a man has what the psychologists call Hosenselbständigkeitsgefühl, or trouser confidence. The four freedoms are a hollow mockery if our braces are going to be bursting all the time...