Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew that it was getting late and that the primetime televiewers would soon be flicking off their sets. He unstrapped his wristwatch, held it up to silence the cheers. "I accept your nomination," he began. "I accept the duty of leading this party to victory." When he added, "I thank you for placing at my side the man you; so wisely selected to be the next Vice President," the delegates burst into laughter. Even Lyndon had to smile...
...want to thank you," said Bobby Kennedy to a breakfast audience of Kentucky delegates, "Jackie, Ethel, Pat, Eunice and Jean. Now there are only five or six of us left." Delegates blinked back tears...
...most memorable speeches. March said beforehand that Kennedy "would have deplored sadness in any of us"; yet few could check tears as he recited Alan Seeger's / Have a Rendezvous with Death. Seeger, a young American poet, was killed in World War I. Whispered Jackie to the audience: "Thank all of you for coming-all of you who helped President Kennedy in 1960. May his light always shine in all parts of the world...
...face of the invasion by hordes of boldfaced, liberally indoctrinated brats is most commendable. It is unbelievable that the National Council of Churches should sponsor such a flagrant and insulting assault on the rights of the white majority. The people of America will give their answer in November, thank...
...force is a young, college-trained laity that accepts the church's essential mysteries and matters of faith while questioning the authoritarian way moral theologians reduce these dogmas to terms of practical behavior. As one California Jesuit puts it, "The catechism answers don't satisfy any more -thank...