Word: mercifully
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...jeeps embracing the French and us alike; they uttered a great mass cry of delight that swelled and died down and swelled to a greater height. They cried: "Vive De Gaulle!" and "Vive Leclerc!" But one word repeated over and over rose above all the other words. It was: "Merci! Merci! Merci!" (Thanks! Thanks! Thanks...
...island six days ago the first Resistance center had been set up. Louis IX was one of the good French kiitigs and the people who remembered were glad it was his day on which Paris was delivered. As General Leclerc's procession slowed down the cry swelled again: "Merci! Merci! Merci...
...Tricolors, Stars & Stripes, Union Jacks, Red flags with the hammer & sickle. Leclerc stood stiffly clutching his cane, never smiling, while the men in the armored car and in the jeeps behind took the crowd's embraces. Women held their children up to be kissed by the liberators, saying: "Merci, merci...
...University of London, which she swooped through in three years (on scholarships and with honors), Greer played in amateur theatricals. Her college yearbook thumbnailed her as "a unique blend of La Belle Dame Sans Merci and Goldilocks and the Three Bears." This unique blend returned from a year's study at Grenoble with a passionate desire to become an actress. Cried her Presbyterian grandmother: "No granddaughter of mine will ever lift her legs upon a stage." So Greer set up and operated a market research library for a London advertising firm, soon rated a respectable ?10 a week...
Cars kept coming up and driving away. Correspondent Brock kept asking questions. At first the Air Corps captain only shook his head and smiled. But after a while he strolled over to a dark corner and accepted a cigaret. "Merci," he said. Then: "You know? The little...