Word: sir
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...transition toward civilian rule was supposed to begin this week with the first full meeting of the nine-member "advisory council" that will govern until elections can be held. But that session now seems in doubt since Alister Mclntyre, the Grenadian economist appointed by Governor-General Sir Paul Scoon to head the council, has fallen ill. He resigned his new post, and reportedly entered a Geneva hospital for eye surgery...
...yelled, "look at that." It turned out to be a prosthesis, apparently planted by a prankish MP, who splattered it with ketchup for dramatic effect. "We hung Goebbels for jokes like that," declared Thompson. He demanded an explanation. An Army public affairs officer told him, with a straight face: "Sir, that's our disarmament policy...
...Sir Paul Scoon, the once ceremonial representative of the British Queen in the Commonwealth nation, was running the island as Governor-General. With a British lawyer at his side, he announced the appointment of a nine-man "advisory council" that will help administer affairs in Grenada until a new government is elected, presumably under a democratic constitution. No one could say when that might be. The council, composed of non-political Grenadians with administrative skills, is to be headed by Meredith Alister McIntyre, 51, now deputy secretary-general of the U.N. Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva. Scoon gave...
...Crowley says the transition from a working to a college lifestyle was difficult--his roommate last year called him "sir" for the first month--but it was well worth...
...ticket features likenesses of John Harvard and Elihu Yale and a 19th-century Sir Walter Scott poem: Then strip, lads, and to it, though sharp the weather. And if, by mischance, you should happen to fall. There are worse things in life than a tumble on heather...