Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Croupier (handing money to Renault): Your winnings, sir. Renault (briskly): Oh. Thank you very much...
...take a shot at it," he recalls. Privately, however, Dole, who has a jolly irreverence for higher authority, kept a few trusted reporters abreast of whatever he learned about the White House involvement in Watergate. When Nixon's taping system was revealed, Dole was ready with a quip: "Thank goodness, whenever I was in the Oval Office, I only nodded...
...Thank goodness the eagle won out over Benjamin Franklin's suggestion that the turkey become the country's emblem [July 5]. I cannot imagine having a patriotic national march titled Under the Double Turkey...
...passed in 1978 and broadened last year allows "silent meditation" or "voluntary prayer." Said Charlene Boyd, a Mobile elementary school teacher: "The children in my classroom were allowed, if they voluntarily chose to do so, to sing the following jingle: 'God is great, God is good,/ Let us thank him for our food./ Bow our heads, we are fed./ Give us, Lord, our daily bread.' " When Ishmael Jaffree, a Mobile attorney, discovered that his three grade school children were being led in such classroom prayer, he sued. Jaffree last week expanded his suit, challenging the constitutionality of Alabama...
...decades. Some departments have adopted such reforms as the hiring and promotion of blacks and women and the use of social science techniques. On the other side, more traditional chiefs, particularly in small towns, have preferred to stay with tried and true ways that they believe work just fine, thank you. In the past few years the two factions have been quietly wrestling for control of the nation's largest organization of police executives, the 13,500-member International Association of Chiefs of Police. Last week the feud came out in the open, and it was not an uplifting...