Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...read light fiction, and he leafed through a pre-publication copy of a new book about Canada's Russian spy conspiracy, which devoted considerable space to the Prime Minister. He liked it. He took time for some writing, too. He got letters out of the way (one thank-you note to the hotel owner apologized for his poor handwriting), and he worked a few hours every day on a new book on labor relations, a pet King subject...
...autobiographical novels and many other works* during his 71-year lifetime that ended in 1917. But none sold enough copies to relieve him of the necessity of begging from his friends, from tradesmen, from strangers, to keep his wife and two daughters alive. Yet Beggar Bloy said no polite thank-yous to society. His writings alternated perfervid religious devotion with savage, four-letter-word vituperation against solid bourgeois values...
Performances in a local church April 20 and in Memorial Church the following Sunday are already on the choir's spring agenda, with the twenty-ninth cantata, "We Thank Thee God," and the thirty-ninth, "Brich dem Humgrigen dein Brot," ready for airing...
...Roman man-in-the-street simply says: 'Thank God, we know where the U.S. stands.' But one important reservation was expressed by a barber in a well-known shop patronized by haggard Assembly deputies. Said he: 'Well, I suppose all this makes things clearer, but when it's between Greece and Turkey on one side and Russia and Yugoslavia on the other, it's a devil of a choice you give...
When the Communist Daily Worker faced suspension, the Times lent it 16 tons of paper. The Worker ran a thank-you note, but some of the Times's readers took it to task. The Times added comfortably: "We think democracy . . . strong enough to withstand any verbal blows ... by the Daily Worker, and we think that proof of this strength can best be provided by permitting [it] to keep on talking...