Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Miss Hepburn's beautiful voice has, thank God, never changed, although sometimes I wish TIME'S critic would...
...first reaction to the shock had been fear that his two children might see his bleeding body sprawled on the kitchen floor. "Thank God they didn't," he said. He was convinced that he had been the victim of a professional killer...
There was not a political germ in the room. Secretary of State George C. Marshall looked at the representatives of 41 nations, including Russia, and remarked dryly: "Thank God, your purpose here, without recriminations, without undue argument, is solely to do good in the world." The 2,000 doctors, scientists and public health officials had gathered in Washington, D.C. to wage biological warfare against a common enemy, tropical disease...
Occasionally he would get up, shuffle to the registration desk, ask the name and salary of some student he had seen scrubbing floors or waiting on tables. Then, with a curt "thank you," he would go back to his chair, or set off for his daily stroll. Old Smith was never known to buy any clothes and he always ate at the union cafeteria (the cheapest place on campus...
...most vital business, in a holiday spirit tempered by dignity and humor. In Milan, Contessa Castelbarco, Toscanini's eldest daughter Wally (see Music), was the first voter at her polling place in a schoolroom. The lone Communist member of the election board unctuously escorted her out, thanked her for voting. "Thank you," she replied sweetly. "But are you the host...