Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...sir," responds Benjamin...
Seventh, the AMERICAN STATES would agree to subfidize from tax levies a television network dedicated to the broadcaft of high-toned COFTUME DRAMAS and middlebrow police PROCEDURALS produfed in the British Isles, and to greet with enthufiafm, feigned if necessary, the mufical compofitions of SIR ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER...
...drinks. At the Crow's Nest Inn on the day the sinking was reported, recalls the girlfriend of one of the drowned men, "everybody was drunk 'cause that's what we do, just drinkin' and drinkin' and cryin' and drinkin'..." The book's epigraph, from Sir Walter Scott, has it right: "It's no fish ye're buying, it's men's lives...
...good order and discipline, demanded a crisp salute from enlisted men. Whenever he approached a group of us, we would assign one person in the group to salute lefthanded. A thicket of arms would snap up in the regulation manner, accompanied by an enthusiastic chorus of "Good morning, SIR!" Sometimes, Lieut. Sweeney would pause after he passed us, look puzzled for a moment and then shake his head and move on. But the notion that we could have an impact on his mental health was wishful thinking...
Wright-Swadel also cites a reason for going through recruiting similar to the one Sir Edmund Hilary gave for climbing Mt. Everest: because it was there...