Word: thanking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Clarke was profound, as usual. As public support of science wanes-for space exploration in particular-thank God for doers and dreamers like...
...quivering finger at a slender, dark-haired man. "Would you identify him for the record?" continued the prosecutor. The silence that followed was suddenly broken by the suspect, who is leading his own defense. "That's Mr. Bundy," he said, referring to himself in the third person. "Thank you, Mr. Bundy," said the judge. Replied the defendant: "You're welcome...
...more than the house he grew up in, $5,900. When Baker expresses pain, it tends to be with only the parody of a whimper, as in a 1977 column he titled "A Taxpayer's Prayer": "O mighty Internal Revenue, who turneth the labor of man to ashes, we thank thee for the multitude of thy forms which thou has set before us and for the infinite confusion of thy commandments which multiplieth the fortunes of lawyer and accountant alike ... Grant that this sacrifice not be found insufficient unto thy auditor...
...Thank you for taking on the enormous responsibility that you have-and for having the strength to have made it to this day. I don't know how you've managed to learn it all. But there is one more thing you can learn about the body that only a non-doctor would tell you-and I hope you'll always remember this: the head bone is connected to the heart bone. Don't let them come apart...
...tries to speak, manages a halting, coverall "Thank you very much" delivered in some unheard-of accent that sounds like south-of-the-border Maltese. Then he dives ahead, attempting another impersonation. Same accent. Same tone. Same delivery. Now the fear hits again, so bad this time that he forgets everything . . . and has to go back to the start of the act. He takes it all from the top. Already accomplice in his fate, the audience becomes part of his misery, both the reason and redemption for it. The man will not stop, either. Finally he bails himself out with...