"... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told……" — Nicholas von Hoffman
"... Don [Hewitt, 60 Minutes exec producer] told me, "You have set broadcast journalism back 20 years." Naturally, I was both proud and elated although too modest to say so, but broadcast journalism recovered with alacrity, my contract wasn't renewed, and the incident was forgotten."
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Nicholas von Hoffman
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Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they…
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By multiplying the means of gratification, by promoting the introduction and circulation of the precious metals, those darling objects of…
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Give me a bowl of wine. I have not that alacrity of spirit Nor cheer of mind that I was…
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Government never furthered any enterprise but by the alacrity with which it got out of its way.
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