Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sense of ceremony, even the awkward pas de deux, at the end, summed up perfectly all that had gone before, as well as apprehensions for what was to come. In a red-carpeted chamber of Peking's Great Hall of the People, the British Ambassador to China, Sir Richard Evans, sat at one end of a long table covered with a green-tasseled cloth. At the other end sat Chinese Deputy Foreign Minister Zhou Nan. Behind them, the 50 or so officials from both countries, who had endured 22 rounds and 24 months of serpentine negotiation, stood stiffly...
...meeting of the Central Committee. Dan Schorr was a CBS correspondent and he said to Khrushchev, Mr. Khrushchev, I want to go on holiday, but my office won't let me go because there's a rumor of a meeting of the Central Committee Could you tell me sir--this is not for a story--I just want to know if I can go on holiday...
...said 'Thank you very much sir, I really appreciate that, thank you ever so much,' and started walking away, thinking he had a big story...
...should be forbidden because such arrangements are "liable to moral objection." Critics on all sides did not hesitate to attack. A Roman Catholic spokesman called the practice of AID "morally unacceptable," while a newspaper columnist denounced restrictions on pregnancy as "ludicrously inconsistent." But unless such differences are settled, warned Sir John Peel, former president of the British Medical Association, society will confront "the brink of something almost like the atomic bomb...
Capitalizing on the rage for things Oriental that had also seized writers such as Pierre Loti and Gustave Flaubert and scholars like Sir Richard Burton, the Orientalist artists vied with one another in seeking out exotica. Harems aside, the subjects that most mesmerized them were slave markets, carpet bazaars, whirling dervishes, Arab stallions, caravans of caparisoned camels and wind-whipped burnooses of Bedouins on the sands of the Sahara. "There is a fortune to be made for painters in Cairo," noted William Makepeace Thackeray on a visit to Egypt in 1844. "I never saw such a variety of architecture...