Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...adore it in Canada. Here we are hunkered down mindlessly in the snow, smack in the middle of the shortest possible overland missile, or, if you like, infantry route between those legendary, loving pals the U.S. and the Soviet Union. The 20th century, promised to us by Prime Minister Sir Wilfrid Laurier in 1904, is almost over, and Canada, so far as pennant-contending nations go, is still fumbling through spring training. Unemployment is running at 11%. Our dollar is teetering at 760 (U.S.). But what had surfaced as one of the most contentious election issues in the first month...
Chebrikov: You mean Mr. T. sir Not him, luckily for us. But this is almost as bad. The chief of our east coast disinformation campaign. William F. Buckley has gone off, as they say in America, "the deep...
Chebrikov: Yes, sir the Krem de la Krem. It was he who helped whip up the anti-Soviet paranoia in 1980 to help the election of our friend, Ronald Reagan. It was he who helped fan the fires of extreme anti-communism over the '60s and '70s while the doves in the Democratic Party went soft on our efforts. Were it not for him, and his friends like George Will, we might now have to be talking to the Americans...
Chebrikov: Well sir, last week in his syndicated column, which hundreds of papers around the country carry, he launched an attack on Derek Bok, the president of that bastion of capitalism, Harvard University...
Chebrikov: Oh yes I know sir, the liberal press will be able to use this, just as it was able to use Reagan's "evil empire" speech to foment unease among the moderates and people who want to talk with us. Did you notice, something may even be wrong with Reagan...