Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition to Brother Bobby as Attorney General and Brother-in-Law Sarge Shriver as director of the Peace Corps, Brother-in-Law Steve Smith was discovered working quietly as an unpaid consultant for the Development Loan Fund. In faraway Seattle, Herbert Legg, Washington State Democratic chairman, was prompted to remark: "The Kennedys have what one might call an English awareness of friends and relatives, because they know their friends and relatives are qualified-else they wouldn't be friends and relatives...
Major White's chief comment on the flight was to remark happily that everything had gone well. But if the X-15 itself could have talked, it might have complained about the heat of the flight. A thermocouple inside the wing recorded 675° F. Yet the structure did not fail, and the engineers are confident that it can take its design temperature of 1,200° F., reach Mach 6 and climb to 50 or perhaps 100 miles...
...think that Slavic A will probably survive the effects of the story. It is rather my own course that is likely to suffer. What was said about my course in the article was trivial and misleading. The reporter confined his analysis of my methods and materials to the remark that I employ "such devices as insulting or ridiculing...students to provoke them into responding in Russian," and that we sing Russian songs at the end of class. I think that there are more interesting things to be said about my course, and I regret that you did not consider such...
...review of Graham Greene's new book A Burnt-Out Case, drew a chuckle from the remark "and only Graham Greene could think of this," in reference to a "boy" named Deo Gratias. I don't know who thought of it, but this is in fact quite a common name in East Africa as well as in the Congo...
...many Council members have complained that "you have to keep hammering," or "it takes years to get what you want." An official who has worked closely with Council investigators praised the students' work but added the revealing remark, "They are easy to satisfy...