Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...copy of their version. They were coldly received. For an hour they were kept waiting in the dining room of the presidential palace. Then a grim and unsmiling Marcos saw the four "Agravatars," as members of the panel are known, just long enough to bid them a chilly thank-you. He remained seated behind his desk when they rose to leave his study. "I hope you can live with your conscience," he told his visitors as they walked out. Unlike Agrava, the men were not treated to any ceremonial joint meeting with the press...
There were smiles, lots of thank you's, victory signs, screams and yells...
...Thank you, Mr. President...
...production numbers as he munched on hard-boiled eggs. He had no knowledge of music. Once at an intermission he summoned to his loge the distinguished Bolshoi conductor Samuil Samosud and told him strongly that the performance "is lacking flats." Samosud had the wit to reply: "Good, Comrade Stalin. Thank you for your comment. We will not fail to pay attention to that...
...were talking she said that now she was trying out for the basketball team (her eligibility for that sport remains unaffected), and as I began to thank her for being so gracious, she started to tell me how enthusiastic she was about the soccer team for which she could no longer play...