Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week Canada spent more than nickels in a hands-across-the-border "thank you." Through nine whoppingly successful victory loans, 50 Hollywood stars had toured the Dominion, had made seven film shorts and 37 radio transcriptions. In a gesture of gratitude, Canada took over the pale green sunroom (for cocktails) and the green-paneled Palm Room (for dinner) of the swank Beverly Hills Hotel, exported boyish, popular Lester B. ("Mike") Pearson, Dominion ambassador to Washington, as guest speaker. There was also a kilted Scottish bagpiper, and a mouth-watering Canadian dinner presided over by austere John Helders...
...Dominican who knows the cruelties and oppression to which my countrymen have been subjected for the last 15 years, allow me to thank you for your article of Nov. 19th, and believe me that you could fill page after page with cruelties committed by Trujillo and his henchmen...
...letter-writers are correspondingly more concerned about them (e.g., the very heavy volume of thoughtful mail we have received on the atom bomb). Many letters hit us hard, and sometimes we reciprocate-not always by mail. For example: a University of Shanghai professor wrote in recently to thank us for a large map of Manchuria which hit him on the head outside the TIME & LIFE Building during the blizzard of paper that marked the peak of the V-J Day festivities...
...wish to state that I stand here today with [a] clear conscience. I want to thank the United States of America for a fair trial.* I swear before my Creator that I am innocent of the charges brought against...
...thank Thee that once again men may have hope, opportunity to work and plan for a better future, a chance to secure peace and an ampler life for themselves and their children...