Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vice president, sir," Meese explained...
...sir," Meese answered. "As you know, this Friday the vice president will attend the swearing in of Sandra Day O'Connor...
...name's Ed. Mr. President. I'm sure we could handle these matters without you, sir, but the press might see you leave the White House if you go riding. Maybe if we finish early, you can go before dinner...
Also fired were Sir Ian Gilmour, a haughty and intellectual aristocrat who was Deputy Foreign Secretary, and Education Secretary Mark Carlisle. Both men had expressed doubts about Thatcher's economic policies. Afterward Gilmour confessed that he had written his resignation a month ago in the full expectation that he would be fired. "Every Prime Minister has to reshuffle from time to time," he said in his resignation broadside. "It does no harm to throw the occasional man overboard, but it does not do much good if you are steering full speed ahead for the rocks." Humphrey Atkins, a Thatcher...
...something more even than a thinking man's Rocky. One takes from it subtler pleasures-the controlled ferocity of Ben Cross as Abrahams, for instance, and the gentle strength of Ian Charleson as Liddell. A word of praise, too, goes to a supporting cast that includes Sir John Gielgud and Lindsay Anderson as a pair of congealed Cambridge dons, Nigel Davenport and Patrick Magee as Olympic committeemen respectively too smooth and too Blimpish. Like every element in this picture, the actors look right; they seem to emerge from the past, instead of being pasted...