Word: thankfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...teen-age gangs who swagger about New York's West Side-in the standard uniform of leather jacket, ducktail hairdo and handy switchblade-like to boast that they are the Egyptian Dragons or the Assassins and that they can lick anybody on the street. But they can thank their geography that they have never had a rumble with a gang from the Far East...
Without Warmup. After her first appearance, the housewife was naive enough to thank the producer for his tip. Says she: "He shook his head firmly and put his finger to his mouth." But when the showmen decided that she had won enough, they said to her: "We're going in straight today-no warmup." The other contestant was tipped off and the housewife was beaten. She picked up her prizes and went home happy...
...Thank you for publishing the pictures of the victims of the "bloodless" Iraqi revolt...
...symbol of the national aspirations for freedom for all people ... It will be a trying time for all of you. I know that. But I also know that you are American servicemen, trained to do your duty to your country. Through me, our people here at home thank you. God bless...
...inspection of a new apartment house on Los Angeles' Wilshire Boulevard last week and gushed: "It's the most gorgeous thing I've ever seen. But, I mean, it's even nicer than our house." Near her, a trim, wavy-haired man gravely replied: "Thank you, madam." For Norman Tishman, 56, president of Manhattan's Tishman Realty & Construction Co., the compliment was no surprise; his company had planned the building to be the most luxurious cooperative apartment house in Los Angeles, with some units costing...