Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Sir," said their spokesman, "we have a terrible calamity to relate to you. The four of us spent the last week in a special organic chemistry research center out of town, studying day and night for you course. Our labors were enhanced, of course, by the unique organic chemistry resources the center features, which offered us a rare and enriching supplementary perspective to the stimulating course work you had to other...
...afraid sir, I'm just not prepared for your exam today said the student...
...wasn't the type of kid who robbed or stole," says Joseph Dames, 35, an employee of the 14th Street video arcade. "He was a real sweet kid, the kind who would say, 'Yes, sir.' " When Nevell Sr., a moving man, was injured three months ago, Nevell Jr. became the family's breadwinner. He earned $910 a month as a Bade County government clerical worker...
...tragedienne Mrs. Crummies, great of girth and spirit, explains to Nicholas why she had to give up her title role in The Blood Drinker: "The audiences, sir," she sighs and smiles, "they could not stand it. It was too... tremendous...
...peculiar achievement of Sir Anthony van Dyck was to have invented the English gentleman-not the mild, knobbly, pink creature one sees beneath its bowler in the street, but the now vanishing archetype of aristocracy, calm and straight as a Purdey gun barrel, with the look of arrogant security guaranteed to paralyze all lesser breeds from Calais to Peshawar. This invention began in 1632, when Van Dyck, an ex-assistant of the greatest court painter of his age, Peter Paul Rubens, arrived in London. It ended with his death at the age of 42, in 1641. In between came seven...