Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...thank you for the fine article about Lincoln. But I still say he shouldn't have done...
...because my shirt went out of style 20 minutes ago. I want to tell you that I have attended a few affairs in my life, but never anything like this. When you think that Charles Edison is sitting here, and his father made this spotlight possible-thank you. But Mr. Luce does everything on a grand scale, and on the 25th anniversary of LIFE he did a 90-minute TV show with me as the star, and now he has invited me here. Mr. Luce obviously has vision, intelligence -and amnesia ... I get a personal kick just seeing all these...
...found that some circumstance in the schedule of their busy lives kept them away. Among them was Germany's Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, who also accepted but then found the pressure of events too great. He wrote: "It would have afforded me great pleasure to be able to thank the American people once more from all my heart and on American soil for the readiness to help and the friendship which it has shown us immediately after the war and during the following difficult years." Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman, presiding at the birth of a new nation, regretted that...
Woodward A. Wickham, Jr., '64, president of the Lampoon, said last night that the White House had not yet sent a thank you note...
...occasion was one of those times when strong men are permitted to weep. "I thank all the people who have been so fine to me-all my friends," said Boston Celtics' Basketball Star Bob Cousy, 34, moved to tears by a crowd of 3,000 at a testimonial banquet in Worcester, Mass. Retiring for a coaching job at Boston College, the Cooze firmly numbered among his friends another athlete-Paul Hornung, 27, Green Bay halfback indefinitely suspended from the National Football League for betting on Packers games. Hornung-present at Cousy's insistence -shakily recalled his own furlough...