Word: sir
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...pechay than most, went to unusual lengths. Learning that pechay was on the night's menu, he took a hair from the longest-haired girl in school, worked it into his plate while the teacher was not looking and then pretended to discover it. "Look at this, sir!" he announced, grasping the end of the hair and then slowly and endlessly drawing it out of the hated vegetable. That night his entire table was excused from having to eat pechay...
...literature that the sport has inspired, it is Bernard Malamud who best combined the mythic and the realistic streams of America's baseball consciousness. The Natural, published in 1952, reads as if Ring Lardner and Sir Thomas Malory had simultaneously invaded Malamud's sensibility, joining their gifts to produce an almost flawless first novel...
...runway will allow the rapid deployment of British troops in an emergency. Although the democratically elected government of Argentine President Raúl Alfonsin has replaced the military regime that invaded the Falklands in 1982, the British-and especially the Falklanders-remain suspicious of Argentine intentions. Says Sir Rex Hunt, who as civil commissioner is in effect governor of the islands: "I think Alfonsin is an honorable man. He says the invasion was 'an illegitimate act by an illegal government in a just cause.' He is right on the first two counts. He should be convinced that...
...gulf states and also convinced the Palestine Liberation Organization that Peking alone understands its plight. Most important of all, China seems close to recovering sovereignty over the British colony of Hong Kong on its own terms. Last week, while visiting Peking for the twelfth round of talks, Foreign Secretary Sir Geoffrey Howe became the first British official to concede publicly that Britain will return the colony to China when its lease over the New Territories expires...
...goes up and they play the national anthem, would she feel she had won for Britain or South Africa?" Like those safari ants, Budd is pressing on. She has next to hurdle the I.O.C. eligibility rule requiring three years' residency. Exceptions have been made in the past, notes Sir Arthur Gold of the British Amateur Athletic Association, who will argue her case this week. Sir Arthur is not even sure he wants to win, however. Says he: "If the committee says yes, the Third World will attack us for trying to get in through the side door...