Word: sirs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...products of science shape and pervade our lives. Sir Francis Bacon made this point in 1620. "Printing, gunpowder, and the magnet," he wrote, "have changed the whole face and state of things throughout the world...no empire, no sect, no star seems to have exerted greater power and influence in human affairs." Modern equivalents are legion: consider e-mail, nuclear weapons, biotechnology...
...campuses across the nation, student groups--through a combination of rallies, hunger strikes and sir-ins--have succeeded in convincing administrations to implement ethnic studies curricula...
...which Sir Edmund Hillary, now retired in New Zealand, added, "I have a feeling that people have been getting just a little bit too casual with Mount Everest. This incident will bring them to regard it rather more seriously...
...sir, have the boorish manners of a Yalie," says the indignant writer...
...only complete sentences of English some drivers know. We can now look forward to hearing a driver punctuate a stream of Haitian patois or Urdu or Russian with "It is my pleasure to place your bags in the trunk" or "May I help you into the building, sir...