Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...choice, the triumph on its merits was particularly sweet. And Terrible Ted Turner, the bold, brash captain of the revamped 12-meter yacht Courageous, had the champagne ready in Newport when George Hinman, head of the six-member selection committee, came to tell him and his crewmen the news: "Gentlemen, you have been selected to defend the America's Cup." Skipper Turner, 38, a Georgian who owns the Atlanta Braves and the Atlanta Hawks (TIME, Aug. 8), had won the right to try to retain for the U.S. the world's oldest international sporting trophy by defeating...
...screens, can be seen Marilyn Monroe, Doris Day, Peter Lawford, Marlon Brando and John F. Kennedy as President. The gloom of Kennedy's assassination breaks the mood, but not for long, as Ed Sullivan can be seen in 1964 announcing, with a wave of the arm: "Ladies and gentlemen...
...bloated OAS bureaucracy, assigning the hemisphere's ministates nonvoting status, changing the rules so that the U.S.. which provides 67% of the $72 million OAS budget, would pay no more than 49%. Thus the organization will remain, at least for another year, the loose club de caballeros (gentlemen's club) that it has been for most of its history since it first met in Washington, D.C., as the Pan American Conference...
...need not tell you, gentlemen, that the world situation is very serious," the speech blandly began. "That must be apparent to all intelligent people." Then Marshall sketched Europe's devastation and economic disruption...
...Universe, cross it, and conquer it if he is to arrive at a metaphysical sense of self. No philosopher had a more playfully metaphysical sense of self than that most exoteric of existentialists, that master mirthful mentation--just in from the Danish Coast, here he is now, Ladies and Gentlemen, Soren "The Psycho" Kierkegaard. You may all stop reading now. I only introduced Kierkegaard as a further inducement for you to stop reading, primarily because I can't understand why any of you would be interested in Humor Theory, the most tedious of philosophical endeavors...