Word: sir
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...standing army in Europe, is the vital defender of NATO'S southeastern flank and shares a 350-mile border with the Soviet Union. Thus the U.S. and its Western European allies tended to be sympathetic to, if somewhat saddened by, the generals' reasons for seizing power. As Sir Ian Gilmour, Britain's Deputy Foreign Secretary, put it, "No one likes army coups. But when you have so many political killings and you have spent five months trying to elect a President, then democracy does not appear to be working very well...
...week, Democrat John Stennis of Mississippi, an old ideological foe, embraced him. Said Democrat Thomas Eagleton of Missouri: "You're the best and the brightest in every respect." Republican Paul Laxalt of Nevada, another longtime antagonist, grabbed the veteran's elbow and said, "You were a thoroughbred, sir, a thoroughbred...
...most touching example: a Canadian cavalry officer named Gordon Muriel Flowerdew, who was exhorted to lead a squadron of Lord Strathcona's Horse straight at entrenched machine gunners on a ridge. Flowerdew, Toland writes, "a mild-looking young man, smiled gently as they started forward. 'I know, sir. I know it is a splendid moment. I will try not to fail you.' " As the doomed cavalrymen rode past, an appalled cockney rifleman yelled, "Strathcona's Orse! You'll be bloody bully beef if yer don't get art the way!" Flowerdew and half...
...anus. The real obscenity is the amount of money spent on the gallons of fake blood and the tons of naked flesh used in the film; the amount of money needed to waste the talents of such fine performers as Malcolm McDowell, Peter O'Toole, Helen Mirren, and Sir John Gielgud; the amount of money squandered on lavish sets that often look less like ancient Rome than the interior of the Hong Kong...
...coined the putdown Second City, Chicagoans have been perversely proud of it-all the more so when they could lay claim to the nation's tallest building (the Sears Tower), most durable big-city mayor (the late Richard Daley) and arguably the best symphony orchestra (under Conductor Sir Georg Solti...