Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: The most tragic thing about the presidential campaign is that everything Nixon, Humphrey and Wallace say about Wallace, Nixon and Humphrey is true...
...Sir: The wave of conservatism you say is making the election of Nixon very likely is appalling. No conservative nation in history has survived. Indeed, our mother country, England, died of it; there is no reason to think we are any different. The voters of 1968 may well go down in history as having preserved the state while destroying the nation...
...Sir: Thank you for your sympathetic report on Hubert Humphrey. I should like to be counted...
...Sir: Let it be known to the world that this faithful reader has made an epochal invention, the minus vote. In addition to the plus vote that every voter already has to vote for a candidate, he will now be given a minus vote to be used against a candidate. At the election, the total of a candidate's minus votes will be deducted from that of his plus votes. In this way, if a voter cannot favor any candidate, he can at least cast a ballot against the one he likes least. Too bad this solution comes...
...Sir: Sincerest congratulations on your article about Russian Novelist Alexander Solzhenitsyn [Sept. 27] and the plight of Russia's present generation of outstanding authors. Even under the most onerous of conditions the human spirit is capable of producing artistic works of outstanding merit. I hope that articles such as this one will help alert Westerners to the current deplorable situation in the U.S S R. and give a better understanding of the indomitable Russian spirit...