Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...delegates needed no such prompting when Nancy Reagan appeared in the gallery for the first time, or when Barry Goldwater, looking frail after a hip operation, approached the microphones to reminisce about 1964. When the delegates' roars of "We want Barry" subsided, he quipped: "Thank you, folks. Can I accept the nomination?" John Connally also drew enthusiastic cheers and applause by quoting Senator Edward Kennedy's caustic comments on Carter's economic and foreign policies. Said Connally: "We agree with Senator Kennedy that we need a new President." New York Congressman Jack Kemp, a leading proponent of the deep...
...mouth to set off the alarm at the airport. Then on the way out he'd hand you a lollipop to make sure you'd be back real soon. In fact, Frankfurt was the only dentist he had ever seen who had a sign on his door that read, 'Thank You, Call Again Soon...
...publish in Pravda. One can only envy such tolerance!" He referred to your in correct identification of me as someone who "sometimes writes for Pravda. " At first I thought that the information was just a very amusing misprint - I have long stopped contributing to Pravda. Then I thought, thank God, TIME is not published in Moscow. In my days there, some editors of Pravda lost their jobs for far more innocent misprints. During the Stalin era many journalists ended their days in concentration camps...
This preppie code applies, thank God, to few other sports. Americans, and the kind of Britishers who attend soccer matches realize that when men congregate in short pants it is to compete, and, that competition involves a certain diminution of one's gentility. All basketball players--all basketball players--complain when they think an unjustified foul has been called, and many complain on principle, every time they hear a whistle. The thought of Mendy Rudolph bellowing, "Mr. Dawkins will resume play." The idea of the Garden scoreboard operator announcing to the assembled throng, "Mr. Tiny Archibald has been issued...
When I first glanced at your cover illustration with its title "Help! Teachers Can't Teach," I thought, "Oh, no, here we go again-another damning article on education." But I was pleasantly surprised. As a teacher, I want to thank you. You spelled out many of the existing problems of education very well...