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Word: sir (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...after an event--"Rescue at Entebbe," perhaps. "Good afternoon, Hertz." "Uh, yes, this is Bernard Weiss of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in Bethesda. There is a congressional delegation traveling to Harrisburg this afternoon. They'll need several cars waiting at the airport. Can you help me?" "I'm sorry sir. We have no cars available in Harrisburg...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: And Meltdown for Dessert | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...Sir, you have picked most of your Cabinet, conferred with President Carter, received scores of task force reports and explored the Washington Establishment. Have your views of the presidency and its challenges changed since the election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: An Interview with Ronald Reagan | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

Second Biggest Bomb: Sir Lew Grade's Raise The Titanic! which could scarcely raise the curtain , let alone a paying audience...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: Show Business & Television: The Most Of 1980 | 1/5/1981 | See Source »

BORN. To Lucie Désirée Arnaz, 29, actress (Broadway's They're Playing Our Song) and daughter of Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz, and her husband of six months, Actor Laurence Luckinbill, 46: a son, her first, his third; in Los Angeles. Name: Simon Thomas. Weight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 22, 1980 | 12/22/1980 | See Source »

DIED. Oswald Ernald Mosley, 84, dashing, charismatic leader of the British Union of Fascists whose army of anti-Semitic Blackshirts fomented hatred in London during the 1930s; in Orsay, France. A brilliant but impatient thinker and a gifted orator, Sir Oswald (he inherited the title from his father, an English baronet) was elected to Parliament at age 22 as a Conservative, later became an independent, then a Socialist Laborite, and finally embraced the ideology of Mussolini and Hitler. Held in detention as a national security risk during World War II, he later exiled himself to a villa in France...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 15, 1980 | 12/15/1980 | See Source »

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