Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thank you for your cogent definition of poverty as it exists in America today [Oct. 1]. As a member of our local Community Action Program, I have heard critics of the poverty program claim that they were once "poor" but had improved their lot "with no help from anyone." Your definition will go a long way toward clarifying the concept underlying the key word in this essential effort...
...then some. "My only fault of any gravity," Che's letter continued was in not having trusted more in you from the first moments of the Sierra Maestra, and not having understood your qualities as leader and revolutionary. I have lived magnificent days. I thank you for your lessons and your example.' As for Che's young wife Aleida and his three children, whom he left behind, "I ask nothing for them because the state will educate them and give them enough to live on." Out front in the audience, as Castro read the letter was Aleida...
Fingering a 105-year-old rosary that "once belonged to my grandmother," the defendant wept while his lawyer summed up before U.S. District Judge Peirson Hall in Los Angeles. "Oh, thank you, your honor!" cried old Movie Mobster George Raft, 70, as the judge fined him a mere $2,500 on one count of filing a false income tax return but dismissed five other charges amounting to $50,000 in back taxes-and a possible $25,000 in fines and 15 years in prison. "I told you not to thank the judge," said Judge Hall. So George proceeded to thank...
...Thank you for the informative article. It is time adults realized that our music is not just shrieking, but a form of expression. It shows that teen-agers are concerned about many vital issues...
President Abdul Salem Aref had two reasons to be grateful last week. Not only could he thank his brother, Abdul Rahman, for putting down an attempted coup during his absence in Morocco (TIME, Sept. 24). He now basked in the blessing of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, who assured Baghdad's boss that he had no connection whatsoever with the wily pro-Nasser rebels who sparked the revolt...