Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite Sutcliffe's admission of guilt on the seven charges of attempted murder and 13 of manslaughter, his trial was far from over. Expressing "grave anxiety," the judge, Sir Leslie Boreham, asked the attorney general and chief prosecutor, Sir Michael Havers, to explain "in greater detail than usual" the background of Sutcliffe's "diminished responsibility" plea-a British variant of "temporary insanity." After reports about the defendant's mental state were read, Justice Boreham finally responded: "It would be more appropriate if this case were dealt with by a jury...
Depend upon it, sir, when a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully...
...customers. Even some police, reports Xinhua, have begun to acknowledge "the mistaken idea that since they represent the proletarian dictatorship, they have a right to shout at people." From now on they will no longer yell "hey you" at traffic violators; perhaps it will be a polite "hey you, sir...
...Valentine's Day, 1975, Sir Pelham, 93, fell asleep in his chair, pipe half filled, writing materials beside him. So lived and died the character P.G. Wodehouse had labored to create: a perfect gentleman and a happy writer...
...ends, the autobiographers fade back towards anonymous sanity, Sir Quentin dies, and Fleur's novel attracts enormous acclain. Fleur admits that she lingered to watch the characters wind down, to invite their antagonism, and to risk further danger of libeling them all. "They were morally outside myself, they were objectified. I would write about them one day. In fact, under one form or another, whether I have liked it or not, I have written about them ever since...