Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suppose I must thank you for assigning me such star billing for my past role in the Housing office. While I have been accorded a certain notoriety as a result of the article by Roger Klein (September 28), I feel it only appropriate to call to your attention that the article credits me with power I never, until now, fully appreciated. The deans, the House masters, a bevy of senior administrators, and the members of the Committee on Housing and Undergraduate Life, all participated in developing the housing policies and monitoring my work., Indeed, I am flattered in the knowledge...
...more than three decades Smokey Bear has been gently cajoling forest users to prevent fires. In ranger hat and dungarees, Smokey used plenty of "pleases" and "thank yous" in posters and broadcast spots. He still often does, but since forest fires have become such a problem, says a U.S. Forest Service spokesman, "we felt we needed to say it a little more forcefully this year." So, in a 60-sec. radio spot, a camper croons a story of how he left a fire burning, and then a bold new Smokey takes charge. He angrily bares his teeth and sings...
...operation, it turned out, apparently lasted all of three minutes and was for the removal of a swelling on the lower part of his neck. At week's end there was no more talk of comas, and Big Daddy was said to be recovering very nicely, thank you, on an island in Lake Victoria...
...their biggest fan," Forlini said. "Nobody backs up these kids in this neighborhood except me." Forlini proudly noted that the team made him an honorary member of their fraternity house. "When the players come in here Saturday night with their parents, they thank me for taking care of their sons," he said...
...nearer era-France's Belle Epoque. Inspired by the writings of Colette, his clothes are flirtatious and feminine. Here there are no robes that conceal the figure, no heavy padding-only effervescent clothes that capture the spirit of Gigi, the gay gamine immortalized by Maurice Chevalier's Thank Heaven for Little Girls...