Word: sir
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...official records he had no title, position or office: he did not exist. But in fact Winston Churchill's spymaster, Sir Stewart Graham Menzies, deserves as much credit for the Allied victory in World War II as most of the generals who won the battles. His amassed information formed the invisible army that marched into Germany with Eisenhower, Montgomery and Patton. It is past time for this engrossing if overlong biography of the war's most mysterious player...
...pleased Thatcher, 62, that she postponed a trip to Africa to toast the occasion with her husband Denis. The Prime Minister has often dropped hints that she is prepared to "go on and on," raising speculation that she aims to break the British record for all time. The competition: Sir Robert Walpole, whose 21 consecutive years of service (7,620 days, to be precise) starting in 1721 make him the man to beat...
...SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN: OVERTURES (Nimbus). From Patience to Pinafore, a Savoyard field day with the crack Scottish Chamber Orchestra under Alexander Faris...
...Lifeboat. "My dear," he replied, not even bothering to look up, "you're sitting on it." A man wrote to say that after seeing poor Janet Leigh butchered in the famous shower scene in Psycho, his wife was afraid to step into the bathtub. What should he do? "Sir," Hitchcock answered, "have you ever considered sending your wife to the dry cleaner...
...have to give this much to the Luftwaffe," the Prince said at the annual dinner of the Corporation of London Planning and Communications Committee. "When it knocked down our buildings, it didn't replace them with anything more offensive than rubble. We did that." Worst of all, he complained, Sir Christopher Wren's majestic St. Paul's Cathedral has been overshadowed by a jumble of ugly office buildings. "In the space of a mere 15 years, in the '60s and '70s, your predecessors as the planners, architects and developers wrecked the London skyline and desecrated the dome of St. Paul...