Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...your Feb. 21 report on the VA: Thank God for the U.S. Veterans Administration. If it had not been for it, I would have been dead of cancer over a year ago. Two operations by their grossly underpaid doctors saved me ... You speak of a 1,000-bed hospital with only 385 beds in use; every day men who fought . . for their country are turned away to perhaps die because these beds are not being opened to them. How callous can people get? Everyone should know of the surgical wards in some VA hospitals where one lonely nurse...
American College students are more concerned with private success and less concerned with social, political, and international problems thank are foreign students, according to Gordon W. Allport, professor of Social Relations, and James A, Gillespie, an assistant professor at Colby College...
...Stunner. Congressman followed Congressman in assault on the bill. Cried Illinois' Mason: "Just remember all of those billions we have given away and what good did it do us? All those foreign countries hate America. Thank God I didn't vote a penny for the giveaway program." West Virginia's Democratic Representative Cleveland Bailey rambled for 30 minutes, then said: "Now I'll pass on rapidly to the subject at hand." Chairman Smith glanced at the Navy-type, 24-hour clock on the wall, murmured: "Thank you." A few minutes later, Smith called for a vote...
...commissioners from their staff since Jan. i, 1954, exclusive of those having to do with the Dixon-Yates contract. Then Strauss pointed to the six-inch packet on the table: the envelopes, he explained, contained everything the commissioners had read about Dixon-Yates. Said Strauss laconically: "I would now thank you for the opportunity you have accorded me to put the record straight...
...Premier, stepped uncomplainingly aside and lived on, even rising to high power again. Some, like the devoted Communists in Arthur Koestler's Darkness at Noon, confessed to others' errors as their last proof of loyalty to the system, and hoped that after their deaths Communist history would thank them for their sacrifice to the cause. But nobody before had ever fallen as Georgy Malenkov, once the presumed heir to Stalin's dictatorship, fell last week...