Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Sir / The time has long passed when the world can continue its apathy toward the terrorist actions of Arab groups against civilians [May 27]. The uproar after the Olympics quickly waned, along with that after the incidents of Lod Airport and Qiryat Shemona. The guerrillas have gone past killing civilian adults. Now they must show their extreme "bravery" by slaying innocent children. If the murderers of children are to be made heroes by a country, then we must treat that country like the plague, and shun...
...Sir / Numerous American officials have expressed their outrage about the Arab terrorism at Ma'alot. But recently the U.S. voted with other U.N. members to censure Israel for defending itself against precisely such vile acts. That vote places the U.S., in my opinion, in a position supporting the Arabs' cowardly attacks on Israeli civilians. My shame as an American is exceeded only by my bitter anger...
...Sir / I was amazed to hear the American Government characterize the Ma'alot killings as "mindless and irrational...
...with fellow Grotonian Dean Acheson or shot quail with then Secretary of State Christian Herter. But, unlike Joe, Stewart had no arrogance, either socially or journalistically. Said one friend: "Joe's the kind of guy who can rise from an interview with a famous source and say, 'Sir, you have just wasted 30 minutes of my time.' Stew would never do that. He suffers fools more gladly...
...Oval Office conversations existed, asserts Pierre, they would have revealed Jack's easy authority over his staff. There would have been no need to have the letter P placed before his utterances, as it is in the Nixon transcripts, because Kennedy aides always called the boss "Sir" or "Mr. President." Pierre burnishes the memory of Kennedy's generally happy relationship with the press, but overlooks the late President's courting of reporters, his participation in the suppression of news about the Bay of Pigs, and his canceling a subscription to the critical New York Herald Tribune. Still...