Word: sir
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...Sir: You state that snake handling [Nov. 1] is based on Jesus' words in Mark: 16. Modern versions of the Bible do not include these words in the text. The oldest Greek manuscripts do not include "snake power." Modern scholars generally agree with James L. Price of Duke University that "vocabulary, style, content and manuscript evidence support the conclusion that this ending is no part of the Second Gospel. Later scribes supplied it." The King James translators did not have access to these early manuscripts, so the words do occur in their version...
...military assessment. While other advisers listened silently, the President leaned on his elbow and kneaded his face. Then he shot a vital question at Abrams: "Has it reached the point where we could reduce the bombing without causing casualties?" Abrams looked squarely at the President, his jaw firm. "Yes sir," he said. If there was any single moment when Johnson finally decided to gamble on a bombing halt, that probably was it. Shortly thereafter, he put in motion the orders to ground the planes...
...both drawings and watercolors, Levine is that rare man among artists: one who does not deny his forebears. His caricatures, whether of Bertrand Russell looking like a stately pelican or D. H. Lawrence with two female legs kicking orgiastically from beneath his shaggy forelock, acknowledge their indebtedness to Sir John Tenniel and Sir Max Beerbohm. Much of Levine's bite and humor are caused by the juxtaposition of dated technique and contemporary subject. When it comes to watercolors, his style is equally traditional, and he finds it most unfair that critics who admire his caricatures turn against his watercolors...
...sadder that today Stratford's Holy Trinity Church is a dilapidated ruin in dire need of restoration before it crumbles to the ground. Now to the rescue comes a group of Shakespeare devotees who have organized a $480,000 fund-raising drive to finance repairs. Said Sir Michael Redgrave, one of the leaders of the appeal: "Surely the need is self-evident. This church, this grave, is one of the great pilgrimage points of the world...
...Died. Sir Harold Raggatt, 68, long-time director of Australia's Bureau of Mineral Resources (1942-51) and Department of National Development (1951-64); of a heart attack; in Canberra. Sir Harold planned the first complete geological survey of the continent, welcomed foreign capital for development of the desolate Out Back, eventually saw it all pay off as enough oil and gas were discovered to make Australia almost self-sufficient...