Word: remarkable
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have just written a letter to Senator Mansfield suggesting that, in the light of his remark in connection with the Pueblo incident, we should admit our guilt, regardless of facts, and that he should introduce into the Senate a bill to change our national bird from the American eagle to a chicken...
Charter Flight advertising in the Student Calendar quotes the President's remark that he hopes not to tax the student unduly. Bennion emphasized that the Charter Flights are going ahead as planned...
...After touring Europe for the past four months, seeing magnificent cathedrals, many situated in filthy poverty areas, I can say only one thing about Daniel Moynihan's remark: if the money that was spent on cathedrals in 20 centuries of Christianity (which came from the poor, directly or indirectly) had been used to help the poor, there may not have been three summers of rioting. Christianity's retreat from the humbleness that Jesus preached into self-glorifying magnificence has gone on long enough...
That a suggestion from General Hershey might be adhered to quite strictly within the SSS is indicated by a state SSS director's remark: "The two greatest men in my life," he told me, pointing to two photographs on his wall, "are the late John F. Kennedy and General Hershey...
...many of his predecessors. But once, in the early days of his presidency, when his aides warned him against risking his prestige by fighting for a civil rights bill because the odds were 3 to 2 against its passage, he asked quietly: "What's the presidency for?" That brief remark spoke volumes about his desire to use the office not simply as a springboard for self-aggrandizement but for the nation's progress...