Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hello, John,' said Sir David Ormsby-Gore (now Lord Harlech) when they arrived...
...Sir: Your article on teen-age drug use [Aug. 30] raises a question. If American youth so strongly urges "telling it like it is," why do more than 10% of the nation's high school students experiment with drugs like marijuana? Aren't they concerned with seeing, hearing, feeling, smelling, and tasting it like...
...Sir: The parents of young drug addicts, suspected or proven, won't profit much from your call for "franker conversation" [Aug. 30]. Have you ever tried to talk to a rebellious teenager? What parents must ask themselves is: "What is missing from my life, that I must use drugs-nicotine or alcohol-myself?" The same ingredients will be missing from the child's life, and he will have every reason to agree with the unspoken message of the parent's example: Life is not worth living without drugs. Parents could ask: Do we love enough...
...venture came, as it has so often in the past, not from a Moscow spokesman but from a distinguished British scientist. Closemouthed Soviet scientists announced only that a space craft called Zond 5 had been launched into deep space from a parking orbit around the earth. But after Astronomer Sir Bernard Lovell trained his 250-ft. Jodrell Bank radio telescope on the receding craft and analyzed its signals, he told the world exactly what the Russians were trying to do. Zond's mission, he stated, was to fly around the moon and return for a safe landing on earth...
...backs of orchestra seats. There is a cross fire of phrases as the actors recite everything printed on a dollar bill. The caustic commentary on money and the military builds to an insane close-order drill on stage. In the cacophonous din, a thundering common shout of "YES, SIR!" seems to blast out the house lights...