Word: thanked
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...real soldiers, or maybe they’re off duty—they seem very relaxed. One of them warns me to look out—I have wandered into the bike lane, and a Bianchi is about to slam into me. I jump out of the way and thank the men. There they go, the real heroes, at it again...
...people who bought Vivendi Universal stock at ?140. Go ahead and laugh, I'm used to it. Today I feel odd - as if I were the only fully dressed person in a nudist camp. Thank you, Jean-Marie, for this moment of solitude. I am a kind of universal idiot; the boob who believed it. Believed in what? That I was going to become rich, powerful, partake in the absolute quest of human happiness - one attainable with the laws of the triumphant market. Or better yet, that I'd become a little bit like Jean-Marie Messier myself...
...want to make sure. Your parents will thank...
...hard chair by the front door with her mouth open. Her pale face paler than I had ever seen it. Her blue eyes staring. My father was driven into motion. He wanted to know details and to comb the cornfield along with the cops. I still thank God for a small detective named Len Fenerman. He assigned two uniforms to take my dad into town and have him point out all the places I'd hung out with my friends. The uniforms kept my dad busy in one mall for the whole first day. No one had told Lindsey...
...spite of such reactionary drivel, the powers that be have reached the conclusion, thank god, that Webster’s speech should—indeed must—be allowed, and indeed encouraged, to be delivered. To do otherwise would end free speech in America, and the world...