Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Year in Asia. The victory belonged to Communist China's Premier Mao Tse-tung, his Foreign Minister Chou Enlai, and to Ho Chi Minh, the leader of the Viet Minh. For a considerable measure of recovery from the Indo-China disaster, the free world could thank John Foster Dulles. First Dulles hammered out and pushed through the Manila Pact, which committed eight nations to take joint action against subversion and aggression in Asia...
...canteen for lunch. His workmates, members of the A.E.U., gathered for a quick meeting. The public outcry was beginning to tell on them. Machinist Stan Wetton got up and said: "Our attitude has become un-Christianlike." The other men nodded. Before they adjourned, the men voted to thank Ed Boyce for being such a good steward-but also to lift the ban on Hewitt. When Hewitt came back from lunch and climbed into his cage, Boyce walked over and said: "O.K., Ron, it's all off." Hewitt smiled and shook Boyce's hand. "I don't bear...
...Carl Sandburg dropped in for a scheduled 15-minute interview on Allen's midnight show. Looking as mild and mischievous as Grandma Moses in a barroom, the weathered old buckeye bard casually ignored the time limit on his stint, brushed aside his M.C.'s good-nights and thank-yous, stayed on happily ad-libbing, reading, reciting and singing for the full hour that remained of the show. Asked by the harassed Allen if he would mind the interruption of a popular tune by Pianist Marian McPartland, the old man conceded gracefully-but with a qualification: "Just...
...such great writers in the past that a writer is driven far out past where he can go, out to where no one can help him. I have spoken too long for a writer. A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it. Again. I thank...
...throat felt hot. "Thank you, but no. I'm going to visit my roommate this Christmas...