Word: thanked
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...businessman came in saying he had been to Kansas City. "They got Coke machines there that talk to you. They say, Thank you' and 'Have a nice day' and 'Sorry, that nickel is bent,' that sort of thing. There were country boys there buying Coke they didn't want, just to get the machines talking...
Richard Hyland was a member of the 1969 Harvard Strike Committee. He is now a lawyer working for a Washington law firm. The author wishes to thank William Logan and Jay Mark Iwry for their suggestions and encouragement...
...after his smoke. Indeed, in the tense days of 1962 he sent Pierre Salinger, his cigar-loving press secretary, out one night to round up a thousand of the Upmanns. A bewildered Salinger appeared next morning to assure the President he had commandeered this great treasure, whereupon J.F.K. sighed, "Thank goodness, I can sign this." He pulled the Cuban trade embargo from his desk and penned his signature, ending, among other things, the importation of Havana cigars. The world, as we well know, has never been as mellow since...
HALFWAY THROUGH READing the case studies chapter of The Lecherous Professor, a sensitive and pioneering analysis of the problem of sexual harassment at universities. I caught myself thinking. "Thank God I'm not pretty enough to have ever had to deal with any of this...
...several West Bank settlers and some reserve officers in the Israel Defense Forces. The police hope that the arrests may shed some light on earlier attacks on Arabs, including the June 1980 bombings that maimed two West Bank mayors. Of the foiled bus attack, Interior Minister Yosef Burg said, "Thank God, the disaster was prevented. Terror produces more terror...