Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wish to thank you for your article on Everett Knowles [June...
...quiet voice on the BBC announced that Tom Curtal was dead. In his darkened study, over a supper of claret and dry biscuits, 79-year-old Graham Stanhope was at first shocked, then breathed in relief, "Thank God! Thank God!" With Curtal dead. Stanhope became Britain's unchallenged grand old man of letters...
Meanwhile, appearing before a House subcommittee investigating the Estes case, Roland Ballou, an Agriculture Department official, was asked if he had ever met Estes. His answer: "I have not. Thank the Lord." Ballou's fervent reply was understandable, as the hearings turned up more strange twists in the serpentine scandal. Items...
...instrument consoles. Five agonizing seconds passed. Then Carpenter, finally realizing what had gone wrong, reached up and fired the retrorockets manually. Says one man who was in the Canaveral control center: "When those retros fired, you could hear some loud sighs, people letting their breath out, and a 'thank God' or two." "Roger"-And Out. But the damage was done. By firing the retros too late at too shallow an angle, Carpenter had foredoomed his capsule to land far out of the target area. There was another danger: Carpenter's manual fuel tank was empty...
...Thank you kindly for your attention to my protest against adding ness to so many words in the English language [May n]. TIME truly has feathered its own ness...