Word: sirring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...TIME blushes; the quotation came from a cable which was garbled in transmission, making it appear that the answer was given by Sir Stafford himself...
...STRANGE ERROR CREPT INTO YOUR REPORT OF SIR STAFFORD CRIPPS'S SERMON IN ST. PAUL'S [TIME, JAN. 16]. ACCORDING TO STORY ["VOICES IN THE EXCHEQUER"], NEWSMAN ASKED ABOUT ABSURD RUMOR THAT CRIPPS HEARS DIVINE VOICES, AND CRIPPS REPLIED...
Britain's Sir Alexander Cadogan was well entangled with his flamingo. His government has withdrawn recognition from Dr. Tsiang's government, and recognized that of Malik's Communist friends. Yet Sir Alexander voted for Tsiang and against Malik. The Briton spoke acidly of Malik's "valuable cooperation," meaning just the opposite. Sir Alexander said he would not repeat his remark of the previous meeting, that Malik's demand for Tsiang's ouster was "premature." By this Sir Alexander meant that he would repeat his remark...
India's Sir Benegal Rau said the U.N. had better straighten out some rules, otherwise "a government of party A might be recognized by the General Assembly while that of party B would be recognized by the Security Council." Clearly, that would never...
With the courteous horror of the Lilliputians for the oafish Gulliver, British commentators have recently felt obliged to pin down the invading monster of American culture, and examine it at close range. One of them, Sir William Haley, director general of BBC, began plans last fall for a series of talks by qualified intellectuals on the impact of America on European culture. BBC's five lecturers-three Englishmen and an Irishman, with Harvard Professor Perry Miller concluding in rebuttal a fortnight ago-seemed to pull up two stakes for every one they drove, but succeeded here & there in tethering...