Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crowd in the chandelier-hung room at Monaco's elegant Winter Sporting Club was certainly stellar, stippled with the rich (Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos, London Merchandising Millionaire Sir Charles Clore), the royal (Britain's Princess Alexandra) and the pop (ex-Beatle Ringo Starr). But the real stunners were the prices being paid for the glittering collection of French antique furniture and objets d'art that were on the block in what Sotheby Parke Bernet hoped would be the auction of the year...
...want? No sir...
...Braintree, Mass., Sunoco Station Manager Bruce Weir was laboring over his books at 6:15 a.m. "I saw a fellow pull up to the pump in a late model Chevy Malibu and I went out and knocked at the window and I said, 'I'm sorry, sir, we don't sell gas till 7.' I started back and got two steps from the door when I felt a big bang on my left leg. I grabbed my leg. Below me was a bottle of Heineken's, half full. Now I walk backwards...
...Each time the reply was "Not guilty." Then the official asked for a second verdict, to the charge that one of the defendants had specifically incited another to murder a third person. Again the answer was "Not guilty." The proceedings lasted for scarcely a minute. When the presiding judge, Sir Joseph Cantley, adjourned the court, former Liberal Party Leader Jeremy Thorpe, 50, picked up the three pillows he had brought along to pad his hard wooden chair throughout the 31-day trial and exuberantly tossed them over the dock to his wife Marion...
...less than a week) said it would no longer grant even temporary asylum to the refugees. Hong Kong, which had been swamped in recent weeks not only by refugee "boat people" from Viet Nam but also by illegal immigrants from China, dispatched its Governor, Sir Murray MacLehose, to Britain and the U.S. to discuss the problem...