Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Thank you for truthful reporting on the Middle East. It now appears that we've been allied with thieves, liars and attackers. Do we, the United States, have the courage of our convictions? If we had advance knowledge of this dirty business, it could have been reported in advance and stopped before il got started...
...Truman recalled him to command and to fuse the forces of NATO, the heart of U.S. and Western European foreign policy. There Ike began to hear the mounting summons of Republicans and independents ("What a mess our blessed nation is in," the dying Senator Vandenberg had cried, adding hopefully, "Thank God for Eisenhower") urging him to come home...
...true that Churchill had described Lord Rothermere, publisher of the Daily Mail, as "romping around in the gutter?" Replied Randolph: "That is rather good stuff. Lord Rothermere is very much ashamed about it, but he goes on doing it. He will not thank you for giving further publicity to it in this court...
...warmed to the speech, delivered with confidence and fervor, with which Gaitskell wound up a later debate. The cheers kept on until Gaitskell rose and took a bow-a tribute almost never tendered at Laborite conventions. Raising a hand, and with shining face and vibrant voice, he cried: "Thank you, comrades, we take that as a pledge between us." The conference rose and gave him its heart. There was no doubt about the meaning of that pledge: Gaitskell was the man they wanted for their leader...
...remaining potatoes." Gigi only laughed, so Nannarella slapped him hard across the face. One of Gigi's brawny henchmen seized her arm and began to twist it, but the victorious captain only smiled, "Let her go." That evening as Nannarella wandered disconsolate and alone, she met Gigi again. "Thank you for stopping that man," she said, and Gigi smiled again. The two wandered along together in the moonlight. A month later, Gigi proposed marriage, and Nannarella's response was instant. "We shall control two sections of the market," she said...