Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...object to the letter from Filippo Bosco in which he implies that a number of national groups in the U.S. do not support the British. As a black from Jamaica, I had considerable contact with the British in my early days. I thank them for a better education than I would have received in this country. They were fair, decent and just...
...Thank you, my God. You have put me here...
...appears on national television to deliver a spiritual talk. The program be gins with a picture of a sunset over famed Lake Atitlán, followed by Rios Montt in civilian clothes standing in a garden filled with trees and chirping birds. "Good evening," he begins typically. "I sincerely thank you for the opportunity that you give me to be with you tonight. It cannot be any other way." Some Guatemalans, as a result, call their President "the maid" because, like household maids, he comes out on Sunday...
...gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that he had invited T.S. Eliot to dinner, she said, "Tell him to bring his own chop." During an erratic ride to a local restaurant, Edmund Wilson criticized the driving of Allen Tate: "Thank you uh uh, thank you Allen for uh for uh for an interesting and hazardous experiment in uh what it's like to drive on the wrong side of the road, an experiment hohoho which I uh I want never to repeat...
...Says a Guatemalan newspaper editor: "When the Argentines first went into the Falklands, a lot of people here were saying, 'Bravo, we should do the same thing and invade Belize.' But now, after watching the British these past few weeks, that feeling has changed to, 'Thank God we never tried.' " Meanwhile, at the United Nations most of the Caribbean countries were trying to keep a low profile in the affair partly to avoid jeopardizing foreign aid from the U.S. and partly because many are English-speaking former colonies that retain sympathy for Britain...