Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Because this particular victim of Holly wood's wonderful ways happens to be 1) intelligent, 2) candid, 3) now free to talk - her long-term contract with Warner has just expired ("thank God") - Miss Fitzgerald has finally explained all. Any Hollywoodenhead would insist that it was entirely her own fault, and, in a measure, she would cheerfully agree...
...reading, Molotov smiled shyly and peered at the correspondents. The smile seemed to say: "Well, gentlemen?" A correspondent said: "Thank you, Mr. Molotov. Thank you very much." The newsmen then filed their stories and returned to the dreary Hotel Metropole, where the luggage of Jap diplomats and newsmen had already been piled on the stairs. It was 9 p.m. in Moscow, three hours before the beginning of Russia's second war with Japan...
...thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes...
Every U.S. soldier was mobbed by Chinese, by more hands than any G.I. could shake, more gifts of.cigarets than he could smoke, by boundless gratitude in cries of "To hsieh, to hsieh-Thank you, thank you very much!" and "Mei-kuo ting hao -America is swell!" One celebrant was asked: "Where will you be in a month?" He answered for China: "Not Chungking, not much. Nanking! Nanking! Nanking...
...were naturally ambitious, but because ambition was demanded by the conventions. Perhaps this is what he meant to convey to the lady who, on seeing him devour a huge meal, remarked : "You seem to have a very good appetite, Mr. Trol lope!" "None at all, madam," he replied, "but, thank God, I am very greedy...