Word: thousand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Finally, is the scene of "President Kennedy's Triumphant Arrival." Five thousand Dallasites gave a warm welcome to President and Mrs. Kennedy when their plane touched down at 11:37 a. m. at Dallas's Love Field. The President and Governor Connally are shown waving to the crowd. The last figure is that of the President's famous wife, Jacqueline. She doesn't look like most of her pictures, though. It's easy to see they've given her too much make-up. But she is smiling...
Twenty-six thousand fans saw them and were, almost without exception, unimpressed. Naturally, sports fans have a dependable tendency to exaggerate and get carried away with derrogations. Harvard's quarterbacking against Boston University wasn't atrocious, but it left some thing to be desired, and Yovicsin didn't deny...
...said the stamps and several thousand dollars worth of merchandise were stolen from the Penn Central Railroad during interstate shipment. Most of the merchandise was recovered, the FBI said...
...series, which is perhaps the most cynically commercial offering of the season, a widow (Florence Henderson) with three daughters and a cat, wed a widower (Robert Reed) with three sons and a dog. The rival pets and siblings reduced the wedding to a sickening chaos that was about a thousand decibels less hysterically amusing than the show's laugh track suggested...
...play about illusion and reality. Now in Hum 7 you are told that all plays are about illusion and reality, and so to say that a particular play is especially concerned with the subject isn't to say very much at all. Realizing, then, that somewhere near a thousand students have already recognized the immediate inanity of my initial proposition, perhaps a few, extremely tentative assertions can redeem the case...