Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Persian Gulf and firing an Exocet missile into a neutral ship. After a 22-day lull in the Iran-Iraq tanker war, an Iraqi pilot last week claimed another victim, the 25th of the conflict. World Knight, a 258,437-ton tanker owned by Hong Kong Shipping Magnate Sir Y.K. Pao, was bound for Kharg Island to pick up Iranian crude oil. Two British officers and four Chinese seamen were killed immediately as the Exocet demolished the ship's aft superstructure. Two more Chinese and one Indian died later. The toll was the worst from a single...
First: Zounds! I well knoweth, kind sir, that all the world's a stage, but what, pray tell, are these two baseball players doing...
Second: Aye, sir, 'tis true, 'tis true. These boys of summer are men of many parts, who must weather the swings and errors of outrageous fortune...
Finally, last April, British Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe officially announced that Britain would have to surrender administration, but remained determined to fix terms whereby its colony could continue flourishing in the freewheeling style to which it was accustomed. That move prompted the Chinese for the first time to agree to address specific issues, and in June a "joint working group" began to thrash out the details...
...19th century outfits and funeral head wrappings. The hands of one of the corpses, says Beattie, are long and delicate, like a pianist's. Petty Officer John Torrington, 20, left, Able Seaman John Hartnell, 25, and Royal Marine William Braine, 34, died after the two ships of Sir John Franklin's ill-fated expedition in search of the Northwest Passage were trapped by thick ice near Canada's remote Beechey Island. Over the next year, the 129 men on board struggled to survive, setting up a supply shop and smithy on the frozen tundra, but all eventually...