Word: mentions
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Americans do not say 'Thank you' in as many situations as the British, and they often ask a question without begging pardon. It is good American when thanked for a real favor to say, 'You're welcome,' 'Don't mention...
...that have had the same idea have failed. The network's exultant Managing Director Howard Chernoff knows exactly why: "They get impressed with being a Washington correspondent. Pretty soon they get talking about White House press conferences and Congress and forget the local touch. Why, we never even mention President Roosevelt on this program, except incidentally...
Speaking from the Palace balcony, popular President Grau declared that the culprits would be tried, the guilty punished. He urged the people to be "sensible and correct," to "help the Government safe guard the nation's democratic institutions." The President did not mention a name in every Cuban's mind: ex-President Batista, the Strong Man who dominated Cuba for a decade until he permitted Grau to win a fair election in 1944. Several plotters were close friends of Batista, now touring the U.S. in something very like exile. Many were his associates. Pedraza himself was dismissed from...
...fellow workmen walked out, stayed away until the suspension expired. At still another, workers left the job because a telephone close to their machines was taken out, in the interest of better production. Workers at another plant stopped work for a meeting on grievances, found they had none to mention, went back to work again...
...Eisenhower had said that for the Germans to retreat across a bridgeless Rhine would be almost a "naval operation." It would be no less so for the Allies to advance across it. Time would be needed to bring up huge quantities of assault boats, pontoons, bridging materials - not to mention the artillery necessary to cover a crossing in real force. In the midst of ebullient talk about crossing immediately while the Germans were still disorganized, sober-headed correspondents at SHAEF advised their readers to expect a considerable period of preparation...