Word: thankfully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wife visited Professor Einstein and it was through his personal intervention that my name was added to the list of writers and artists in the South of France who were given Rescue Committee's emergency visas to the United States. After my miraculous rescue I went to Princeton to thank Einstein and I remember vividly my first impression. Instead of a frail scientist I saw a deep-chested man with a resonant voice and a hearty laugh. The long hair, which in some photographs gave him the look of an old woman, framed his marvelous face with a kind...
...Thank you very much...
...defeat Hunter in the fifth round and Wright in the sixth. The night after knocking out Wright, Darwin was accosted on the street by a stranger who had been staring at him from a distance. The stranger in an emotion-choked voice thundered, "Sir, I would like to thank you for the way in which you saved your country...
...speak much Spanish," she conceded, in Spanish. "But when my husband is President next year, I am going to study more, and then return and visit you again. Thank you very much." Although Rosalynn and Jimmy have visited Mexico many times, her Spanish was rusty (as is Jimmy's), and she practiced her phrases with the maids in the U.S. embassy...
...pathology" rationale: the structural impetus toward black unemployment that has long plagued the U.S. economy. Contrary to Moynihan's pompous suggestion, blacks can hardly thank "the healing powers of the democratic ideal and the creative vitality of the Negro people" for any success they have gained in the past 15 years. Rather the Gutman book testifies that creativity prospered long ago in the "living space" provided by antibellum slavery. It may have been after slavery that blacks had to struggle to keep that adaptive spark alive as doors to Northern skills and skilled jobs slammed shut. An "unidentified 38-year...