Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Although we were disappointed, we could see that the Federal Government was right. Only older people, like Congressmen and mothers, have enough sense to know that highway bloodbaths aren't a good thing. We ought to be grateful. "Thank you, Federal Government!" we cried, cheering up. "You've saved us from our statistical predisposition to roadside mortality...
...truly unbelievable. Pete Rose, Julius Irving, Wayne Gretzky...the list of magnificent athletes is endless. Weekly, I am presented with the myopic American ideal of excellence: sweaty, scantily clad individuals, almost exclusively men, in various stages of exertion. Thank God for the swimsuit issue. For those of us who were consistently chosen last in grade-school kickball and who crawled through the Presidential Physical Fitness test, it is a welcome, yet brief, respite from fifty-one weeks of pornography. Michael A. Snyder...
...says Christina M. Rafinski '88, recalling her original encounter with her fiance, John M. Heyde '88. "We first knew each other as friends. [As the semester progressed] I realized I couldn't type at all. He volunteered to type my papers. I took him out for Chinese food to thank him...," Rafinski says...
...others will have to listen to us. He will decide that he and the Corporation have not yet been thinking on moral grounds and will immediately recant previous policy and all other statements. We the students will now be able to sleep easier at night, and Bishop Tutu will thank us for our part in the struggle...
...from Apocalypse Now," recalled McSeveney. During a lull in the firing, they started the engine and slowly found their way to open sea through the darkness, past a capsized freighter and a patrol boat loaded with armed men. When they finally sighted Djibouti 30 hours later, they both cried, "Thank you, Lord!" at the top of their voices...