Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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They made their move in the middle of the night, almost apologizing for their coup. Shortly before 2 o'clock last Tuesday morning, a group of officers descended on the Prime Minister's residence in Rawalpindi. "Sir, the troops have come," a servant advised Prime Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. The Prime Minister took the news stoically, gathered his wife and children on the lawn of the official residence, had coffee and ordered his bags packed. He then moved to the Governor's Mansion in the nearby hill resort of Murree, some 30 miles away. Behind padlocked iron...
Little Impact. Despite the eagerness of Grenada's Prime Minister, Sir Eric Gairy, to prolong the meeting for the sake of prestige and to keep his hotels filled in the offseason, most of the foreign ministers had packed up by week's end and headed home. Deputies were left in charge of their delegations. While some resolutions will undoubtedly be adopted, they will, as usual, have little impact. Complained one delegate: "Many countries seem to downgrade the OAS once these meetings are over. We spend a lot of time spinning wheels." U.S. delegates had little hope that...
Green's unorthodox style bespeaks his resolute individuality. Sir Walter Simpson in 1887 in his definitive The Art of Golf recognized the strengths of the unorthodox stylist: "Do I maintain, the reader may ask, that everyone ought to have the same style? By no means; on the contrary, for you or me to model ourselves on a champion is about as profitless as to copy out Hamlet in the hope of becoming Shakespeare...
Although Judge W. Preston Battle failed to pursue Ray's tantalizing reservation, he did repeatedly ask Ray if he understood just what he was admitting and that he was waiving forever his right to a trial. Said Ray: "Yes, sir." The judge: "Has anything besides your sentence of 99 years in the penitentiary been promised to you to get you to plead guilty?" Ray: "No, no one has used pressure...
...Died. Sir John Masterman, 86, former vice chancellor of Oxford University who directed British-and later Allied-counterintelligence units during World War II; in Oxford. In his book The Double-Cross System in the War of 1939 to 1945, Masterman recounted how the Twenty Committee (from the Roman numeral XX, symbolizing double-cross) effectively "ran and controlled the German espionage system" by feeding agents carefully planned false information, e.g., that the 1944 Allied invasion would take place in Calais, not Normandy. After the war, Masterman returned to Oxford and until his retirement in 1961 served as provost of Worcester College...