Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your energetic coverage of my remarks on the Channel Tunnel, at Lowell House yesterday evening. One or two small points: Mathieu Favier was not Napoleon's staff sergeant but an eminent engineer. And today's tube and tunnel people are on speaking terms: beyond the Channel, members of the competing groups, both of which consist of highly reputable firms, frequently engage in successful ventures together...
...except Alfred Hitchcock, the birds' strategist and director. "It makes me tired just watching them," he says, surveying the work of the millions of birds he has cast in his new horror movie, The Birds. "Thank goodness I'm only paying them bird seed...
...news of his release last week, PFC Owen, his nose sunburned from 23 days of hard labor under guard, said contritely: "I want to go back to my unit and be a good soldier." The first thing Letter Writer Chidester did was to sit down and dash off a thank-you note to President Kennedy...
...send 'em back." Defensively, he added: "What are we gonna do with 'em? Hong Kong's bursting at the seams with Chinese refugees. Formosa won't have them. The United States has a strict quota system-and don't send them to Australia, thank you.'' The grim question of refugees from Red China got a rare public hearing last week in Hong Kong's Legislative Council...
...instance thuh hull damn thang is did in this hayere gawddam diuhlect, which at times gits purty sickenin'. And thuh way them guys clomp aroun' back uh thuh stage and forgit tuh turn thuh lights on an' off ain't inny too plasin' neither. Offhand, Ah cain't thank uv no wuss place to put on uh play than thet thar Kirkland Hayuse Joonyer Cummin Room. Sum uv thuh actin' ain't all thet all-fired good, is another thang...