Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sikkim's Queen. Ex-New Yorker Hope Cooke (Sarah Lawrence '63) became Her Highness Hope Namgyal, Gyalmo (Queen) of Sikkim. She wore a pearl chaplet, a red bhakku over a white silk gown, and high-heeled shoes for the occasion. Her vast hazel eyes downcast, she whispered "Thank you, thank you," as a parade of lamas and top-hatted guests pressed forward to present the royal couple with cards marked with mystic symbols and heaps of white scarves for good luck...
...Vaslav Nijinsky stunned audiences with his aerial virtuosity half a century ago has a male dancer so completely captivated the world of ballet. When he leaves the theater, hordes of glaze-eyed females of all ages have been known to surround his car and fall on their knees chanting "Thank you, thank you." The admiration extends backstage as well. Whenever he performs, dancers crowd the wings to watch and learn. "Watching Rudi is more than an education," explains the Royal Ballet's Alexander Grant. "He makes every step seem beautiful, possible and important...
...thank God that the "U.N. stands mute and immobile" in Viet Nam today. "Keeping the peace" is not enough to save the freedom-loving peoples of the world...
...monster stuff," complained United Feature's President Laurence Rutman, who prevailed on Schulz to abandon eight strips. "It's not the real you." In retaliation, Schulz bought a baby blanket, drew a monster on it saying "Boo!" and sent it to Rutman. Replied Rutman in a thank-you note: "It's chasing me around the office...
...comfortable in my home with my husband, two small children and an infant, and I am not about to go to Alabama. But from the bottom of my heart I do want to thank all of the ministers, rabbis, nuns, college professors, students, and just good plain white folk who took their lives in their hands and went on my behalf...