Word: sir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sir: You write that Nixon's first aim in making the speech at the Air Force Academy [June 13] was to quiet criticism of the military. I think you've missed the point. Mr. Nixon said very plainly that the military should not be a "sacred cow," but neither should it be a "scapegoat...
...Sir: According to the President, an isolationist is against the war in Viet Nam; an isolationist is foolishly alarmed at the billions of dollars being wasted by the Pentagon; an isolationist suggests that perhaps it is better to feed the starving thousands in America than to kill the starving millions elsewhere in the world; an isolationist believes that not everyone in the free world wants the U.S. to play mother hen, a role that we have played miserably since World War II. I guess I'm an isolationist, and proud...
...Madrid government eventually hopes to absorb them in an industrial complex abuilding outside La Linea de la Conception, the Spanish border town. Because of manpower economies and increasing mechanization, Gibraltar calculates it can replace them with only 1,000 skilled workers brought in from elsewhere. Says Chief Minister Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan: "We have problems, but in the long run the Spaniards have done us a favor...
Rubella's cause and effect were long unsuspected. Not until 1941 did an Australian ophthalmologist, Sir Norman McAlister Gregg (1892-1966), discover that an unusual number of his infant patients, born with cataracts, had been conceived during a 1940 rubella epidemic...
Latter-day biographers, including Britain's Sir Kenneth Clark, have presumed that Leonardo was a homosexual, citing as part of their evidence the equivocal smile of the Mona Lisa and the faintly cold, faintly remote quality of his drawings...