Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pushed up the sleeves of his shirt and looked out over the crowd in the brush arbor. "I feel the power acomin' on. Thank you, Jesus, I feel the 'nointing!" He plunged his hands into the box and brought out two giant rattlers. A woman near him screamed, "Thank you, Jesus," and became rigid. A young girl cried out, "Hit's the power," and began shouting unintelligibly. Women moaned and reeled. In the hot night, the guitars thrummed...
...acknowledging the story about me (TIME, July 21), for which I thank you very much, permit me to make the following points...
...went on the air over Mutual Broadcasting's Meet the Press, again gave Harry Truman a warm pat on the back. After the program there was a telephone call for Senator Pepper. From the other end of the wire a familiar Missouri voice spoke. The President wanted to thank Pepper for the nice things he had said. The program had come in very clearly, he added, and was very animated...
Quite suddenly, Britons were more popular than they had ever been in India. In Calcutta, Hindus dragged eleven Moslems from a train, hacked them to death. At Amritsar 120 were killed, hundreds injured in rioting between Sikhs and Moslems. But none attacked the once-hated British, who could thank two men for the heightened prestige of their graceful exit...
...Punch cartoon showed a servant of Her Majesty's Treasury waving aside a bearded gentleman with a bundle of pictures. The caption: "Much obliged, but we are a nation of shopkeepers. We don't want any art today, thank you." The snubbed picture-pedlar, as every Punch reader knew, was a Lancashire-born sugar baron named Henry Tate. He had just offered 60 contemporary paintings to Britain's National Gallery-and had been turned down. Five years later, he retaliated millionaire-fashion by building Britain a brand-new gallery and throwing in his collection as a bonus...