Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Mister, please, Excuse me sir. You must pay me more." The rug salesman is near pleading on his knees, or at least he pretends he will go that far. "I have babies at home. You must pay me more...
...realistic texture produces a certain wobbliness in The Paper Men, an instability most evident in Golding's treatment of Tucker. The object of rather savage satire at the beginning. Tucker at one point surprises everyone by coming forward to say "I know how I must seem to you, sir Just another sincere but limited academic." Then, as relations between the two men deteriorate further, Tucker is reduced to a caricature again. Golding's spiritual concern over Tucker as a human being wars with the literary problem of how to depict him. This tension, superadded to Golding's evident wish...
Paragon recently published "Mind and Brian: the Many faceted Problems," editied by Sir John Eccles, a 1963 Nobel Laureate...
...Really, sir, do you think the College should be made over in your image? If you despise the flute, should no one study it? Would you deprive the military of the small leavening that its complement of Harvard-educated officers provides, and leave us to the tender mercies of an officer corps wholly derived from West Point. Annapolis, and Colorado Springs?... Thomas Lumbard...
...March 28, 1982, a Sunday, the brilliant and studiously rumpled British Ambassador, Sir Nicholas ("Nikko") Henderson, brought me a letter from Lord Carrington. A party of Argentines, wrote the Foreign Secretary, had landed nine days earlier on the island of South Georgia, a British possession in the South Atlantic, some 800 miles southeast of the Falkland Islands, a British crown colony. "I should be grateful if you would consider taking...