Word: thankfully
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...pick candidates by ballot, lot, or an "alternative procedure." Then, CRR representatives are selected from the Houses' candidates by lot. Similar procedures apply to the freshman class and GSAS. If such a selection procedure provides us with a fairminded, competent, interested representatives, we will have only Lady Luck to thank. The reform proposals make no change in this procedure...
...colleagues. But his most vile language is aimed at the Jews, especially after he learns that some of them have been given public posts in Allied-occupied parts of Germany. He snarls: "Anyone in a position to do so should kill these Jews off like rats. In Germany, thank God, we have already done a fairly complete job. I trust that the world will take its cue from this...
...supermarket aisle (this type of thing has been used from Topper to Bewitched, and was employed to greater comic effect by a steel-jawed villain in this summer's repulsive Bond film, The Spy Who Loved Me); and three, the "desperation name-in-vain" pun (Denver: Whew! Thank God. Burns: You're welcome...
...night that covers me Black as the Pit from pole to pole, I thank whatever Gods may be For my unconquerable soul...
Moriarty's prime concern is overpopulation. Technicians and their families from the new Trident submarine base at nearby Bangor are jamming the ferries to Seattle. But he takes comfort by gazing through his windows at the city's growing skyline and concluding: "Thank God we are not living in Seattle...