Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early 1960s, not only did New York have 2,567,256 acres, but the other states, inspired by his example, had 3,232,701. Viewers of Britain's royal wedding at St. Paul's Cathedral last week were reminded that the church's architect, Sir Christoper Wren, is buried there beneath a marker that reads, "If you seek his monument, look about you." Robert Moses could be buried anywhere in New York State, perhaps anywhere in America, beneath a tombstone that says just that. -By William A. Henry III. Reported by Petor Stoler/New York
...There was everything from Handel to favorite hymns of Charles (Christ Is Made the Sure Foundation) and of Diana (I Vow to Thee, My Country) to a lilting yet regal new anthem by Welsh Composer William Mathias, 46. The ceremony ended with God Save the Queen, newly arranged by Sir David Willcocks, director of the Royal College of Music, who worked the oceanic swell of that great melody into a kind of coda of moral grandeur. As the anthem died, cheers penetrated the thick cathedral walls as if the world outside had got a celebratory jump on the congregation...
...addition to the no-shows and the never-stop was one guest who was almost a nogo: Sir Dawda K. Jawara, President of Gambia, who lingered a day in England after being regretfully informed by the Foreign Office that he had been deposed in a coup - but who at week's end returned to Africa to try to unseat the rebels...
...sweeping proposal that would guarantee schooling, training or work for every 16-year-old. Cost: $2.3 billion a year. In the end, Deputy Prime Minister and Home Secretary William Whitelaw and Foreign Secretary Lord Carrington, the Cabinet heavyweights, backed the reduced plan, and Thatcher and Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe agreed to go along...
...noble lords can be worked into the structure of a people's monarchy, where is its laureate to be found? The official poet laureate, Sir John Betjeman, does his best, but cannot easily switch from his accustomed gentle irony to the suitably adulatory celebration of a royal love match. Here, however, fate has been kind; Lady Diana's step-grandmother Barbara Cartland has written some 300 successful novels in which the hero and heroine, after some troubled times, marry and live happily ever after. Now 80 and buoyed up by honey and vitamin pills, this estimable lady still...